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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Recorded 1905. Origin: Received from New Zealand.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- small to medium
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 49-57 mm
- Over colour
- flushed orange-red, red streaks
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 40-46 mm
- Skin texture
- smooth, rather sticky, thin, tender
- Flesh texture
- soft, fine, tender
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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