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Pero Mingan

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1947 from France but thought to have originated in Spain. Fruits have soft, sweet flesh with little flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Mid October
Flowering
8th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
Size
large
Type
Dessert
Crown
weak-medium
Shape
Conical
Russet
very low
Ribbing
weak-medium
Firmness
soft-medium
Greasiness
Medium
Over colour
Orange
Flesh colour
White
Ground colour
Green yellow
Over colour amount
very low
Over colour pattern
washed out

Source · National Fruit Collection

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