Red Charles Ross
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A more highly coloured clone of Charles Ross. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from H. Merifield, Staines, Middlesex, England. Fruits are rather coarse-textured, juicy and sweet with a moderate flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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