Sleeping Beauty
syn. Sleeper, Winter Sleeping Beauty
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Lincolnshire. Described in 1851. Fruits have crisp, tender, yellowish white flesh with an acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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