Catherine
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
Accession No.
1977 - 095
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1977 from East Suffolk. Cooks fairly well.
- Accession name
- Catherine (M27)
- Flowering time ›››
- 18th May10% flowering
23rd MayFull (80%) flowering 31st May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Height
- 59.25 mm 1
- Width
- 75.93 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Juiciness
- dry 1
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 1

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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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