Salome
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Ottawa, Illinois, USA and introduced in 1884 by Arthur Bryant, Princetown, Illinois. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at apex, prominent ribs on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 55-61 mm
- Over colour
- striped pink to orange
- Russet type
- russet dots
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 54-64 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy, tough
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 70.23 mm
- Height
- 66.45 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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