Robert Blatchford
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by F. Chilvers, nurseryman, Hunstanton, Norfolk. Introduced in 1914. Keeps its shape when cooked.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 11th May (10%) · 16th May (full) · 24th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Ribbing
- ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Ground colour
- green and yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 100.15 mm
- Height
- 81.45 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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