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Dunning
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1923 by Richard Wellington at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York. It was introduced in 1938. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a sweet and faintly perfumed flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Early McIntosh x Cox's Orange Pippin
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 55.00mm 2
- Width
- 61.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- very weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Dark Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1954 - 088
- Accession name
- Dunning
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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