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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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