Star of Devon
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by J. Garland, Broadclyst, Devon. Introduced by George Pyne, Topsham. Recorded in 1905 in which year it received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits have soft, greenish white flesh with a rather acid and faint aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 64.00 mm
- Height
- 48.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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