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Cigany Alma
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1948 - 358
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from Hungary. Fruits are crisp with a sweet, subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Cigany Alma
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Height
- 62.57 mm 1
- Width
- 76.14 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- solid flush 1
- Russet
- 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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