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Amanishiki
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1936 at Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan. It was named in 1948. Fruits are sweet and insipid - fails to ripen properly in Britain.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Ralls Janet x Indo
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 50.00mm 2
- Width
- 55.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1953 - 013
- Accession name
- Amanishiki
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019