Puffin
syn. Bear and Tear, Come Bear and Tear, Puffin Sweet, Sweet Orcombe, Sweet Orcome
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Somerset, England. Described in 1883. Fruits have soft, tender flesh with a very sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- mawkish sweet
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 82 mm
- Over colour
- flushed orange, streaked red
- Fruit height
- 69 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- soft, tender
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 97.11 mm
- Height
- 90.35 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- dry
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
View on the NFC site