Sussex Mother
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Sussex, England. Described in 1884. Fruits have soft, tender, greenish white flesh with a subacid and slightly sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, truncate-conic t:o conic
- Fruit width
- 60-75 mm
- Over colour
- slight reddish orange flush
- Russet type
- thin russet patches, scaly russet at base
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 56-69 mm
- Flesh texture
- soft, tender
- Ground colour
- pale yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 61.53 mm
- Height
- 55.94 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium-strong
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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