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Dillington Beauty
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1953 - 137
Received by the National Fruit Trials from New Zealand. First recorded in 1872. Fruits have soft, coarse flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Dillington Beauty
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering
22nd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 65.15 mm 1
- Width
- 76.41 mm 1
- Ribbing
- medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- mottled 1
- Russet
- medium-high 1
- Greasiness
- Weak 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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