Sweet-Tart
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A seedling of unknown parentage raised by Robert Gordon, Gordon Apple Trees, Whittier, California, USA. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh with a very sweet flavour.
Material in the National Fruit Collection not currently available.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 29th April (10%) · 1st May (full) · 10th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 72.28 mm
- Height
- 64.99 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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