Redhook
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1923 at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA by R. Wellington. Introduced in 1938. Fruits have soft, fine, white flesh with a highly scented flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, scented
- Ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye, unevenly ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, sometimes flat, conic to truncate-conic, sometimes asymmetric
- Fruit width
- 71-80 mm
- Over colour
- almost covered dark red flush and darker streaks
- Russet type
- russet dots
- Flesh colour
- white, often tinged red especially at calyx, highly scented
- Fruit height
- 60-70 mm
- Skin texture
- heavy bloom
- Flesh texture
- rather soft, fine
- Ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 81.78 mm
- Height
- 77.94 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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