Dukat Spur

Dessert apple

Malus domestica Borkh.

A spur type clone of Dukat, producing larger fruit. Selected by A. Dvorak at the Plant Breeding Station, Techobuzice, Czechoslovakia. Fruits are sweet with rather coarse-textured flesh.

Availability
Material in the National Fruit Collection not currently available.

Parentage:
Golden Delicious x Cox's Orange Pippin

Accession No.
1982 - 257   fingerprint   cancel

Accession name
Dukat spur type

Flowering time
25th April 10% flowering
28th April Full (80%) flowering
7th May 90% petal fall

Picking time
Mid October 1

Size
large 1

Type
Dessert 1

Shape
Globose conical 1

Height
65.37 mm 1

Width
72.03 mm 1

Ribbing
weak 1

Crown
weak-medium 1

Ground Colour
Yellow 1

Over Colour (Amount)
medium 1

Over Colour
Orange 1

Over Colour (Pattern)
striped/mottled 1

Russet
low-medium 1

Firmness
firm-very firm 1

Flesh Colour
Yellowish 1


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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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