Sunset
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1918 by G.C.Addy at Ightham, Kent. Named in 1933. It received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1960. Fruits have firm crisp, fine-textured flesh with a good aromatic Cox-like flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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