Sidney Strake
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A less highly coloured sport of Tom Putt. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1954 from Cornwall. Fruits have firm, fine, whitish flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at apex, very prominent ribs on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 59-67 mm
- Over colour
- striped orange-brown and a little red, brown in grooves
- Flesh colour
- whitish
- Fruit height
- 45-58 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Russet
- absent
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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