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Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Somerset, England. Grafts from a very old tree were received by the National Fruit Trials in 1950. Fruits have soft, coarse, creamy white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed base to apex
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Over colour
- flushed gold
- Russet type
- russet dots, russet on base
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Skin texture
- smooth
- Flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 87.50 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 74.78 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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