Porter
syn. Jenning's, Jennings, Porter's, Yellow Summer Pearmain
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1800 by Rev. Samuel Porter, Sherburne, Massachusetts, USA. Fruits have fine, crisp, tender, yellow flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 14th May (10%) · 19th May (full) · 28th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Ribbing
- sometimes ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- variable, usually large
- Fruit shape
- tall, truncate-conic, convex
- Over colour
- faintly flushed and striped red
- Russet type
- dotted
- Flesh colour
- yellow
- Flesh texture
- fine, crisp, tender
- Ground colour
- bright yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Width
- 67.26 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 68.82 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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