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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at Eynsham, Oxford by F.W.Wastie. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1945. Fruits have firm, crisp, creamy white flesh with a slightly sweet, subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 54.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 48.00 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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