Wheeler's Russet
syn. Reinette Grise de Wheeler
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in England. Known in 1717. Fruits have a little soft, greenish white flesh with a subacid, slightly sweet and slightly aromatic flavour.
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, slightly sweet, slightly aromatic
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye, sometimes on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- variable, tall to intermediate, sometimes flat, conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 58-66 mm
- Over colour
- sometimes flushed reddish orange flecked carmine
- Russet type
- much russet, with scaly patches and paler dots
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 51-61 mm
- Skin texture
- rough
- Flesh texture
- a little soft
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 71.70 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 61.93 mm
- Russet
- very high
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft-medium
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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