Primus
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1935 at the Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Fruits have soft, coarse, creamy white flesh with a very sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- very sweet
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, straight
- Over colour
- striped orange-red
- Russet type
- russet dots and streaks
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Skin texture
- rough, greasy
- Flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow to yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 79.69 mm
- Height
- 71.51 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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