Thompson's Apple
syn. Smeller, The Smeller
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Ireland. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1950. Fruits have fine, crisp, firm, white flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 12th May (10%) · 17th May (full) · 23rd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 66-72 mm
- Over colour
- brownish red flush, carmine stripes and stippling
- Russet type
- russet on base, russet markings on body
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 51-55 mm
- Skin texture
- rather rough, sticky, thick, tough
- Flesh texture
- fine, crisp, firm
- Ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 72.12 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 56.84 mm
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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