Signe Tillisch
syn. Signe Tillish, Sini Tillis
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1866 by Councillor Tillisch and named after his daughter. First described in 1889. Fruits have loose, soft, creamy white flesh with a sweet, subacid, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 84.00 mm
- Height
- 75.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish Yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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