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Devonshire Quarrenden
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to have arisen in Devon, but may have originally come from France. First recorded in 1678. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy with a distinctive aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Annat Scarlet, Devon Quarrenden, Devon shire Red Quarrenden, Devonshire Quarenden, Devonshire Quarrender, Devonshire Quarrendon, Devonshire Quarrington, Englischer Scharlach Pepping, Englischer Scharlach Roter Sommer Pepping, Englischer Scharlach Sommer Pepping, Englischer Scharlachroter Sommer Pepping, Englisher Scharlach Peppin, Morgenrot Apfel, Morgenrotapfel, Pepin alyi, Pippin Scarlet, Pomme ImpTriale, Quarentine, Quarrenden, Quarrendon du Comite de Devon, Quarrendon du Comte de Devon, Quarrington, Red Quaren den, Red Quarenthe, Red Quarentine, Red Quarrenden, Red Quarrendon, Red Quarringden, Roter Quarrenden, Roter Quarrendon, Sack, Sack Apple, Scarlet Pippin, Scharlach Pepping, Sharlakhovyi pepin, Tsyganka
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Mother to:
- Ben's Red
- Newport Cross
- Thoday's Quarrenden
- Tydeman's Harvest
- Rosanne
- Worcester Pearmain
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 32.00mm 2
- Width
- 51.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- very high 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1957 - 189
- Accession name
- Devonshire Quarrenden
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering 13th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid August 1


- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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