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Siddington Russet

Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

A russetted sport of Galloway Pippin. Discovered in 1923 by John Jeffries & Sons Ltd., at Siddington, Gloucestershire. Fruits have firm, crisp, juicy flesh with a subacid flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Late September
Flowering
8th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Type
Culinary / Dessert
Russet
high-very high
Greasiness
Weak
Ground colour
Whitish yellow

Source · National Fruit Collection

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