Scotia
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada. Selected in 1948 and introduced in 1961. Fruits have soft, melting, white flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- upright
- Fruit size
- medium
- Ground colour
- red
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft-medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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