Roxbury Russet
syn. Belper Russet, Belpre Russet, Boston or Roxbury, Boston or Roxbury Russet, Boston Russet, English Russet, Hewe's Russet, Howe's Russet, Jusset, Manetta Russet, Mariett's Ruseet, Marietta Russet, Pitman's Russet, Pomme Russet, Putman, Putman Russet, Putman' Russet, Putman's Russet, Putnam Russet, Putnam Russet of Ohio, Reinette Rousse de Boston, Reinette von Roxbury, Renet Bostonskii, Rox, Rox Russet, Roxburg Russet, Roxbury, Roxbury Russeting, Ruginetta di Boston, Russet, Russete, Russeting, Schippen's Russet, Shippen's, Shippen's Russet, Shippeus Russet, Shippin's Russet, Sylvan Russet, Warner Russet, Warner's Russet
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the early 1600s in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Fruits have firm, somewhat coarse, fairly tender flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- variable, flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex, cross section may be elliptical
- Over colour
- sometimes tinged bronze
- Russet type
- almost entirely covered with greenish to yellowish brown russet
- Flesh colour
- yellowish or greenish white
- Skin texture
- rough
- Flesh texture
- firm, somewhat coarse, fairly tender
- Ground colour
- green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Russet
- high-very high
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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