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Chad's Favourite
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by M.B. Crane at the John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, London. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1939 and named in 1952. Fruits have coarse, soft flesh with a sweet subacid, aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Northern Greening x Cox's Orange Pippin
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 59.50mm 2
- Width
- 68.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1962 - 022
- Accession name
- Chad's Favourite
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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