Sanspareil
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Known in England since the late 1800s. Received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1899. Fruits have crisp, yellow flesh with a sweet, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, aromatic
- Ribbing
- ribbed base to apex
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 72 mm
- Over colour
- bright scarlet flush and streaks
- Flesh colour
- yellow
- Fruit height
- 57 mm
- Flesh texture
- crisp
- Ground colour
- orange yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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