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Duck's Bill
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Shape
- Narrow conical 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 63.50mm 2
- Width
- 73.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- low-medium 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1937 - 010
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1937 from Fred Streeter, Head Gardener at Petworth House, Sussex. Fruits have sweet, rather chewy flesh.
- Accession name
- Duck's Bill
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering
21st May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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