Webster
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1912 by R. Wellington at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA. Introduced in 1938. Fruits have soft, coarse, greenish white flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 82-91 mm
- Over colour
- broad orange and red stripes
- Russet type
- russet at base
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 70-80 mm
- Skin texture
- very greasy
- Flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 94.72 mm
- Height
- 79.98 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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