Smart's Prince Arthur
syn. Ladies' Finger, Lady's Finger, Lady's Finger of Kent, Smart's Prince Albert
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Smart, near Sittingbourne, Kent. First described in 1883. Fruits have extremely firm, fine-textured, rather dry flesh with a fairly sweet, little acid and no distinctive flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 82.50 mm
- Height
- 95.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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