Queen
syn. Die Konigin, Drottningen, Engelskt Drottningapple, Konigin, Koniginapfel, Koroleva, Kralovnino, La Reine, Saltmarsh's Queen, The Claimant, The Queen
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by W. Bull, a farmer at Billericay, Essex, England from seed sown in 1858. Introduced in 1880 by Saltmarsh of Chelmsford, Essex as 'The Claimant'. Received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1880. Fruits have white, rather soft, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a distinctly acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 88 mm
- Over colour
- flushed red, streaked darker red
- Russet type
- scaly russet in cavity
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 63 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- tender
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 89.83 mm
- Height
- 63.57 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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