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Carlton
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1912 by Richard Wellington at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Autumn Bough x Red Astrachan
- Mother to:
- Niagara
- Father to:
- Redhook
Accession No.
1952 - 114
- Accession name
- Carlton
- Flowering time ›››
- 1st May10% flowering
6th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late August 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 78.03 mm 1
- Width
- 86.10 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Juiciness
- dry 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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