Improved Cockpit

Culinary / Dessert apple

Culinary / Dessert apple

Malus domestica Borkh.

A larger form of Cockpit, first recorded in 1902. Fruits have fairly soft, coarse flesh with a subacid and a little sweet, insipid flavour.

Synonyms:
Cockpit Improved

Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Fruit Size
medium to large ^b

Fruit Shape
intermediate, rectangular, convex ^b

Fruit Height
51-70 mm ^b

Fruit Width
64-76 mm ^b

Ribbing
ribbed at eye and on body ^b

Ground Colour
yellow ^b

Over Colour
flushed orange and pale red mottling ^b

Russet Type
sometimes a little russet ^b

Flesh Colour
whitish ^b

Flesh Texture
fairly soft, coarse ^b

Flavour
subacid, a little sweet, insipid ^b

Accession No.
1943 - 010   fingerprint   check_circle

Accession name
Improved Cockpit

Flowering time
8th May 10% flowering
13th May Full (80%) flowering
20th May 90% petal fall

Picking time
Early October ^a

Size
medium ^a

Type
Culinary / Dessert ^a

Shape
Oblong ^a

Ground Colour
Yellow ^a

Over Colour
Orange ^a

Russet
very low ^a

Firmness
soft ^a

Coarseness
coarse ^a

Flesh Colour
White ^a

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References:
a. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
b. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register