Perrine Yellow Transparent
syn. Giant Transparent, Giant Yellow Transparent, Grandparent, Large Transparent (Perrine), Large Yellow Transparent
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A tetraploid bud mutation of White Transparent, ripening one week earlier. Discovered in about 1930 by D.B. Perrine in Centralia, Illinois, USA. Introduced in 1961. Fruits have white, rather coarse-textured, acid flesh with little flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late July
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 73.86 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 59.67 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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