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Curl Tail
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated from Surrey, England. First recorded in 1872. Fruits have soft, coarse-textured, dry flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Curltail, Curltail Pippin
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 69.50mm 2
- Width
- 76.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- n/a 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- absent 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1941 - 017
- Accession name
- Curl Tail
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
17th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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