Statesman Red Sport
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A red sport of Australian variety 'Statesman'. Discovered in New Zealand. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1960. Fruits have firm, creamy white flesh with a subacid and slightly sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye, sometimes on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 62-74 mm
- Over colour
- flushed reddish orange, streaked carmine
- Russet type
- russet at base, scattered dots
- Flesh colour
- creamy white, green core
- Fruit height
- 53-60 mm
- Skin texture
- slightly greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Russet
- very low
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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