Winter Majetin
syn. Majetin, Yorkshire Beefing
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Norfolk, England. Recorded in 1820. Fruits have crisp, rather coarse, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 12th May (10%) · 18th May (full) · 26th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 64 mm
- Over colour
- flushed red-brown
- Russet type
- dotted
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 51-64 mm
- Skin texture
- shining, somewhat greasy
- Flesh texture
- crisp, rather coarse
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 69.09 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 58.08 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- washed out/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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