Queenby's Glory
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received by NFT 1949. Origin: Received by NFT from Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedfordshire, so probably an old cultivar.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet
- Ribbing
- broad ribs base to apex
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex, irregular, asymmetric
- Fruit width
- 64-72 mm
- Over colour
- extensively flushed orange-red, streaked carmine
- Russet type
- extensive russet base and cavity, large conspicuous russet dots
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 51-57 mm
- Skin texture
- smooth, a little sticky
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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