Widdup
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in New Zealand. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1961. Fruits have firm, fine, crisp, greenish white flesh with a subacid and slightly sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 62-80 mm
- Over colour
- brownish to orange-red flush, carmine streaks
- Russet type
- a few russet patches and dots, russet at base
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 50-66 mm
- Skin texture
- smooth, tough
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine, crisp
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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