Vista Bella
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Complex parentage involving Julyred, Williams Early Red and Starr. Raised in 1956 at New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Named because of its exceptional behaviour in the Guatemalan highlands. Fruits have creamy white, juicy flesh with a McIntosh type flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 29th April (10%) · 5th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 72.35 mm
- Height
- 63.63 mm
- Russet
- absent
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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