Tommy Knight
syn. Tom Knight
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in St. Angus, Cornwall. Recorded in 1861. Fruits have hard, crisp flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 30th April (10%) · 1st May (full) · 10th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- small
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 47 mm
- Over colour
- nearly covered with scarlet streaks and dots
- Russet type
- russet in cavity and on base
- Fruit height
- 38 mm
- Flesh texture
- hard, crisp
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 58.11 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 45.21 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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