Red Musk
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Limpsfield, Surrey, England. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1951. Fruits have soft, coarse, white flesh with an acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- much ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex to sometimes straight
- Fruit width
- 61-71 mm
- Over colour
- flushed and striped pinkish orange
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 57-64 mm
- Skin texture
- very greasy
- Flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- Ground colour
- pale yellow dotted green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 76.82 mm
- Height
- 67.25 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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