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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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