Symond's Winter
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Recorded 1928. Origin: Received from New Zealand.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye, ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- variable, flat to intermediate, convex
- Fruit width
- 57-66 mm
- Over colour
- blotched and striped orange-red
- Russet type
- rough russet dots
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 49-58 mm
- Skin texture
- smooth
- Flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- Ground colour
- yellow-green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Crunch
- crumbly
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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