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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1934 at Greytown, Wairarapa, New Zealand by J.H. Kidd. Named in 1965. Fruits have firm, coarse flesh with a sweet, slightly acid and rich flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 68.00 mm
- Height
- 59.00 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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