Red Statesman
syn. Warrior
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A more highly coloured clone of Australian variety 'Statesman'. Discovered in 1914 in New Zealand. Fruits have firm, pale creamy white flesh with a sweet, subacid to acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid to acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at apex
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 67 mm
- Over colour
- up to three-quarters flushed and streaked deep bright red
- Russet type
- russet in cavity, russet dots
- Flesh colour
- pale creamy white
- Fruit height
- 57 mm
- Skin texture
- waxy
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Russet
- very low
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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