Rubens
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at the Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, Netherlands. Recorded in 1954 and introduced in 1955. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 57.00 mm
- Height
- 54.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
Source · National Fruit Collection
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