Port Allen Russet
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Port Allen, Errol, Scotland. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1958. Fruits have fine, greenish white flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 29th April (10%) · 5th May (full) · 12th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Ribbing
- strongly ribbed base to apex
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex, sometimes straight
- Fruit width
- 64-83 mm
- Over colour
- flushed brownish red
- Russet type
- patches of russet, scaly russet on base
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 57-69 mm
- Flesh texture
- fine
- Ground colour
- ???yellow - often green or russet hairline???
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- strong
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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