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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