Thomas Jeffrey
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by D.W. Thomson, Edinburgh, Scotland. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1923. Received an award from the Royal Caledonian Society some years before 1923. Fruits have tender, greenish white flesh with a subacid and a little bitter flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, a little bitter
- Ribbing
- indistinct ribs
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to very slightly conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 59 mm
- Over colour
- almost completely covered scarlet flush and carmine stripes
- Russet type
- russet on base
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 46 mm
- Skin texture
- slightly greasy
- Flesh texture
- tender
- Ground colour
- whitish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 59.36 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 46.21 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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