Red Sauce
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1910 by Richard Wellington at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA. Introduced in 1926. Fruits have coarse, often red stained flesh, with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 11th May (10%) · 16th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- Over colour
- nearly solid red
- Flesh colour
- often red to coreline, cooks red
- Flesh texture
- coarse
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 74.48 mm
- Height
- 67.34 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Pinkish
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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