Small's Admirable
syn. Admirable, Admirable de Small, Admirable Small's, Lamb's Favorite, Lamb's Favourite, Silver Pippin, Small Admirable, Small's Imperial
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1850 by F. Small, nurseryman, Colnbrook, Slough, Berkshire, England. Fruits have firm, crisp, almost white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 64 mm
- Russet type
- large russet dots
- Flesh colour
- nearly white
- Fruit height
- 57 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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