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Coul Blush
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Sir George Mackenzie, Coul, Ross-shire, Scotland. It first fruited in 1827. Fruits have fine, soft flesh which is slightly sweet and slightly subacid.
- Synonyms:
- Coral Blush
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 53.00mm 2
- Width
- 65.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1948 - 023
- Accession name
- Coul Blush
- Flowering time ›››
- 1st May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
13th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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