Sandringham
syn. The Sandringham
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by gamekeeper Perry at Sandringham. Recorded in 1883 in which year it received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society. Introduced by Veitch. Fruits have soft, coarse, mealy flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 13th May (10%) · 19th May (full) · 28th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 73.00 mm
- Height
- 57.50 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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