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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in France. Recorded in 1876. Fruits have firm, greenish white flesh with a slightly sweet, subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, sometimes truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 54-65 mm
- Over colour
- flushed dull orange red, streaked darker red
- Russet type
- green dots, russet at base, a little russet on body
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 45-52 mm
- Skin texture
- slightly rough, greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 67.58 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 59.49 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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