Saint Ailred
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1942 at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, Coalville, Leicestershire. Fruits have rather soft flesh with a sweetish, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 64.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 57.00 mm
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Orange
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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