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Devon Crimson Queen
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1953 - 081
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1953 from Launceston, Cornwall. Fruits have soft flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Devon Crimson Queen
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
13th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late August 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Dark Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Greasiness
- Strong 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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