Sissons's Worksop Newtown
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1910 by Mr Sissons, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Fruits have soft, coarse, greenish white flesh with a subacid to acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid to acid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 53-58 mm
- Over colour
- sometimes flushed faint orange
- Russet type
- russet base, white dots round eye
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 44-51 mm
- Flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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