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Dermen Winesap
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Tetraploid. A sport of the American variety Winesap. Fruits have firm, tender, coarse flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Winesap
Accession No.
1974 - 052
- Accession name
- Dermen Winesap
- Flowering time ›››
- 14th May10% flowering
19th MayFull (80%) flowering
26th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- dry 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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