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Cornish Honeypin
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1955 - 078
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1955 from Cornwall. Fruits have soft, fine flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Accession name
- Cornish Honeypin
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- n/a 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- n/a 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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