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Telstar
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1934 at Greytown, Wairarapa, New Zealand by J.H. Kidd. Named in 1965. Fruits have firm, coarse flesh with a sweet, slightly acid and rich flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Golden Delicious x Kidd's Orange Red
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 59.00mm 2
- Width
- 68.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Greasiness
- Weak 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1961 - 068
- Accession name
- Telstar
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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