Spencer
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1926 by R.C.Palmer at the Dominion Experiment Station, Summerland, British Columbia, Canada. Introduced in 1959. Fruits have firm, crisp, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet, pleasant and slightly vinous flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Width
- 69.50 mm
- Height
- 65.00 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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