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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Discovered in 1949 at New Lennox, Illinois, USA by Worth B. Mooney. Introduced in 1957. Fruits have rather soft, coarse, yellow flesh with a subacid flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Early September
Flowering
3rd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Flavour
subacid
Ribbing
strongly ribbed at eye, slightly on body
Fruit size
medium
Fruit shape
intermediate to tall, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex, asymmetric
Fruit width
59-69 mm
Over colour
flushed and mottled brownish red, deep carmine streaks
Russet type
sometimes russet at base, light dots
Flesh colour
yellow
Fruit height
56-62 mm
Flesh texture
rather soft, coarse
Ground colour
dull yellowish green
NFC characterisation
Size
medium
Type
Dessert
Crown
very weak
Shape
Broad globose conical
Width
62.66 mm
Height
56.14 mm
Russet
low
Ribbing
weak
Firmness
soft
Coarseness
coarse
Over colour
Orange
Flesh colour
Cream
Ground colour
Green yellow
Over colour amount
low-medium
Over colour pattern
striped/mottled

Source · National Fruit Collection

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