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Cockett's Red
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Synonyms:
- Marguerite Henrietta, One Bite
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- small-medium 2
- Height
- 41.00mm 2
- Width
- 51.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1930 - 040
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1929 from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. Fruits have firm, sweet flesh.
- Accession name
- Cockett's Red
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
12th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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