Sharon
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1906 by S.A. Beach, Iowa State Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames, USA. Introduced in 1922. Fruits have crisp, fine, tender, whitish green flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 61.50 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 51.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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