Toyo
syn. Orient
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Junichiro, Nishiya, Aomori Prefecture, Japan and introduced by them in 1935. Fruits have medium textured flesh with a moderately sweet, subacid and perfumed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- moderately sweet, subacid, perfumed
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed on body, more prominently at eye
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- tall, truncate-conic, convex to concave
- Fruit width
- 60-72 mm
- Over colour
- flushed pink, speckled and striped crimson
- Flesh colour
- white, tinged green
- Fruit height
- 58-71 mm
- Flesh texture
- medium texture
- Ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Ribbing
- weak
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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