Sandlin Duchess
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1880 at Sandlin, Malvern, England by H. Gabb. Introduced by William Crump. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1914. Fruits have fine, tender, creamy green flesh with a subacid and slightly sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 70.00 mm
- Height
- 53.00 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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