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Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the North West of England. Recorded in 1883. Fruits have somewhat soft, coarse, white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 57-68 mm
- Over colour
- bright pinkish red flush, carmine streaks
- Russet type
- sometimes russet at base
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 47-64 mm
- Skin texture
- smooth
- Flesh texture
- somewhat soft and coarse
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 73.28 mm
- Height
- 60.78 mm
- Russet
- absent
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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