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Scarlet Pearmain

syn. ?French Pippin, Bell's Scarlet, Bell's Scarlet Pearmain, Ecarlate, Ecarlate d'Hiver, Ecarlatine, Englische Scharlach Parmane, Englische scharlach rote Parmane, Englische Scharlach-Parmaene, Englische Scharlachparmaene, Englische Scharlachrote Parmaene, Englische scharlachrothe Parmane, Escarlatine, Hood's Seedling, Hood's Seedling Pippin, Melville Pippin, Oxford Peach, Oxford Peach Apple, Oxford's Peach, Parmaene scarlatto, Parmen krasnii, Parmen Krasnyi, Parmen rosu, Parmen sarlah-rosu, Parmen sharlakhovui, Parmena sarlotova, Parmena szkarlatna, Pearmain Anglaise Ecarlate, Pearmain ecarlate, Pearmain Scarlet, Red Sigles, Safran Krasnii, Scarlet Oxford Peach, Scharlach Parmaene, Scharlach rote Parmane, Scharlachrote Parmaene, Scharlachrote Parmane, Scharlachrothe Parmaene, Scharlachrothe Parmane, Sigler's Red, Sigles Red, Skarbat prios parmen, Sofran rosu de toamna

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Originated in England. Introduced in about 1800 by Bell, land agent at Sion House, Middlesex. Fruits have firm, crisp, coarse, yellowish flesh with a moderately sweet flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Late September
Flowering
3rd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Size
medium
Type
Dessert
Shape
Truncate conical
Width
60.50 mm
Crunch
crisp
Height
54.00 mm
Russet
low
Ribbing
weak-medium
Firmness
firm
Coarseness
coarse
Greasiness
Weak
Over colour
Red
Flesh colour
Yellowish
Ground colour
Whitish yellow
Over colour amount
high-very high
Over colour pattern
streaked

Source · National Fruit Collection

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