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Crimson Beauty of Bath
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A more highly coloured clone of Beauty of Bath. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh with a distinctive slightly acid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Beauty of Bath
Accession No.
1975 - 303
- Accession name
- Crimson Beauty of Bath (LA 65A)
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early August 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Ribbing
- very weak 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Greasiness
- Weak 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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