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de Quint
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Narrow conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1948 - 306
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from Drome, France. Fruits have sweet, juicy flesh with a perfumed flavour.
- Accession name
- De Quint
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
22nd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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