Taunton Cross
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1919 at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol. Fruits have firm, crisp, somewhat coarse, white flesh with a moderately sweet, slightly acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 64.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 48.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- medium-coarse
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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