Williams Favourite
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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in about 1750 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA. Brought to notice in 1830. Fruits have tender, greenish white flesh with a subacid, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 56.50 mm
- Height
- 52.50 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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