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Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised or introduced in 1916 in Ottawa, Canada. Fruits have crisp, coarse, yellowish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- tall, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 79-88 mm
- Over colour
- flushed reddish orange and faint stripes
- Russet type
- russet dots, russet at base
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 73-81 mm
- Flesh texture
- crisp, coarse
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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