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Durello
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
An apple of Italian origin. It was described in 1949 but is thought to be much older. Fruits have firm flesh with a sweet, subacid, slightly perfumed flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1958 - 141
- Accession name
- Durello
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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