Russet Lambourne
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A russetted clone of Lord Lambourne. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1971 from D.R. Atkins, Pulborough, West Sussex. Fruits have slightly coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet and good aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Globose
- Russet
- high-very high
- Ribbing
- weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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