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Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received 1958. From Italy. Widespread in the north-west region of Emilia, also grown in Parma at one time.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and base to apex
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall, conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 55-62 mm
- Over colour
- sometimes a little dull pinkish brown flush
- Russet type
- sometimes russet at base, white dots
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 54-59 mm
- Skin texture
- smooth, thick, tough
- Flesh texture
- crisp
- Ground colour
- green sometimes mottled yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- mottled/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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