Sunset Sport
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A more highly coloured sport of Sunset. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1963 from Loughgall Horticultural Centre, Armagh, Northern Ireland. 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
- 7th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Flat
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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