Scarlet Crofton
syn. Crofton, Crofton Ecarlate, Crofton Pippin, Crofton Red, Crofton Scarlet, Longford Pearmain, Red Crofton, Saul Apple, Winter Crofton
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Taken from England to Ireland in the late 1500s or early 1600s and reintroduced to England in 1819. Fruits have firm, somewhat coarse, white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 55-64 mm
- Over colour
- flushed scarlet with darker stripes
- Russet type
- russet at base and some on body
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 40-53 mm
- Skin texture
- rough
- Flesh texture
- firm, somewhat coarse
- Ground colour
- golden yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 71.50 mm
- Height
- 56.38 mm
- Russet
- high-very high
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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