Twenty Ounce
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Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in either New York or Connecticut, USA. Brought to notice in about 1844. Fruits have coarse, moderately tender flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Oblong
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- mottled/splashed
Source · National Fruit Collection
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