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Decio
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
This variety is said to date from the time of Attila (c. 450 AD) and to have been brought to England by Roman general Ezio from Latium, Italy. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a slightly sweet, slightly subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Deci, Decio nostrano, Dezi
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1983 - 032
- Accession name
- Decio
- Flowering time ›››
- 1st May10% flowering
4th MayFull (80%) flowering
13th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- small 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 47.27 mm 1
- Width
- 54.68 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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