Rhode Island Greening
syn. Bell Dubois, Burlington Greening, Ganges, Green Newtown Pippin, Green Winter Pippin, Greening, Greenling von Rhode Island, Grunling von Rhode Island, Grunling von Rhode-Island, Hampshire Greening, Island's Grunling, Jersey Greening, Lindley Green Newton Pippin, Pomme Verte de Rhode-Island, Reinette du Seeland, Rhode Island, Rhode Island (Greening), Rhode-Island Greening, Russine, Seelander Reinette, Serinkia, Verte de Ile de Rhodes, Verte de l'Ile de Rhodes, Verte de Rhode Island, Verte de Rhode-Island, Zelence Rhodoislandske, Zelenka Rod-Ailend skaya
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Triploid. Thought to have originated at Green's End, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It was already known by 1650. Fruits have rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a pleasant flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 67-78 mm
- Over colour
- occasional orange flush
- Russet type
- russet at base, pale dots
- Flesh colour
- greenish yellow
- Fruit height
- 54-66 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 83.15 mm
- Height
- 66.23 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong-very strong
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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