Racine
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received by NFT 1947. From France.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweetish
- Ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 70-82 mm
- Over colour
- flushed pink
- Russet type
- russet on base, sometimes russet netting, russet dots
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 64-70 mm
- Flesh texture
- fairly fine
- Ground colour
- light yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- mottled/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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