Rod Tonnes
syn. Red Tonnes
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A coloured sport of Tonnes. Originated with Rasmus Roed, Kolbjerk Mark, Denmark. In existence in 1942. Fruits have rather soft, fine, creamy white flesh with a sweet, slightly subacid and slightly aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid, slightly aromatic
- Ribbing
- strongly ribbed base to apex
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, sometimes flat, truncate-conic, convex, usually asymmetric
- Fruit width
- 60-68 mm
- Over colour
- much flushed and a little striped lively red
- Russet type
- russet at base and occasionally on body
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 53-62 mm
- Flesh texture
- rather soft, fine
- Ground colour
- golden yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- strong
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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