Philadelphia
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1983 from R. Quantrell, Alford, Lincs. Fruits are crisp and juicy with an acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 72.00 mm
- Height
- 54.68 mm
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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