Woodford
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 2 accessions
Originated in Essex, England. Known in about 1900. Fruits have coarse, soft, pale cream flesh with a subacid, slightly sweet and slightly perfumed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession 1950-289 · Unknown
- Picking time
- early september
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
No descriptor data recorded for this accession.
Accession 1977-204 · Woodford
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet, slightly perfumed
- Ribbing
- ribbed at base and apex
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall, conic, convex to straight
- Fruit width
- 69 mm
- Over colour
- slight orange-brown flush
- Russet type
- a little netted russet, conspicuous stellate russet dots
- Flesh colour
- pale cream
- Fruit height
- 69 mm
- Skin texture
- tacky
- Flesh texture
- coarse, soft
- Ground colour
- golden yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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