Tropical Beauty
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1930 by Meredith B. Strapp, Maidstone, South Africa. First distributed in 1953 by F.B. Harrington. Named and introduced in Australia in 1958 by Longbecker Nurseries, Bunderburg. Fruits have firm, rather coarse, yellowish white flesh with a sweetish flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweetish
- Ribbing
- strongly ribbed at apex and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- variable, intermediate, flat or tall, rectangular, base often narrower than apex, convex
- Over colour
- flushed reddish orange, streaked & flecked carmine
- Russet type
- occasional russet, sometimes a russet hairline
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white, green coreline and veins
- Skin texture
- a little sticky
- Flesh texture
- firm, rather coarse
- Ground colour
- greenish gold streaked green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- strong-very strong
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 73.83 mm
- Height
- 63.93 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- strong-very strong
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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