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Alexis
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A more highly coloured sport of McIntosh. Received via Scotland from Yugoslavia. It first fruited in Scotland in 1960.Fruits have rather soft, very juicy flesh with a sweet and pleasant vinous flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of McIntosh
Accession No.
1967 - 058
- Accession name
- Alexis
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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