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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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