Ruby (Thorrington)
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by F.W. Thorrington, a retired London Customs Officer, Hornchurch, Essex. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1925. Fruits have firm, sweet flesh with little flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 69.00 mm
- Height
- 57.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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