Simonffy Piros
syn. Simonffy Roth
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Hungary. Recorded in 1876. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a very sweet, subacid, perfumed, strawberry like flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- very sweet, subacid, perfumed, strawberrylike
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at apex and occasionally on body
- Fruit size
- small
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, sometimes truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 44-50 mm
- Over colour
- almost entirely covered red with purplish red stripes and patches
- Russet type
- sometimes a little russet at base
- Flesh colour
- white to greenish white, sometimes red under skin
- Fruit height
- 39-43 mm
- Skin texture
- perfumed
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Oblong
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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