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Dockney
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 64.00mm 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1949 - 205
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1949 from Ireland. Fruits have firm flesh with a slightly bitter flavour.
- Accession name
- Dockney
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering
22nd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late August 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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