Murasaki

Dessert apple

Dessert apple

Malus domestica Borkh.

Raised in 1935 at Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan. Fruits have firm, crisp, greenish white flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.

Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Parentage:
Jonathan x Delicious

Fruit Size
medium ^b

Fruit Shape
intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight ^b

Fruit Height
51-57 mm ^b

Fruit Width
57-63 mm ^b

Ground Colour
pale greenish yellow ^b

Over Colour
flushed pale orange red, streaked darker red ^b

Flesh Colour
greenish white ^b

Flesh Texture
firm, crisp ^b

Flavour
subacid, aromatic ^b

Accession No.
1953 - 003   fingerprint   check_circle

Accession name
Murasaki

Flowering time
5th May 10% flowering
11th May Full (80%) flowering
17th May 90% petal fall

Picking time
Late October ^a

Size
medium-large ^a

Type
Dessert ^a

Shape
Globose ^a

Ribbing
strong ^a

Crown
medium-strong ^a

Ground Colour
Whitish yellow ^a

Over Colour (Amount)
high ^a

Over Colour
Red ^a

Over Colour (Pattern)
striped/mottled/solid flush ^a

Russet
low ^a

Firmness
firm ^a

Crunch
crisp-very crisp ^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a. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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