Sam Young
syn. Irish Russet, Irlandischer Rothling, Irlandischer Rotling
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Ireland. Brought to notice in England in 1818. Fruits have firm, rather tough, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 54.00 mm
- Height
- 42.50 mm
- Russet
- high-very high
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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