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Elton Beauty
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated at Ince Orchards, Chester. It was introduced by 1952. Fruits have soft, fine flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- James Grieve x Worcester Pearmain
Accession No.
1963 - 108
- Accession name
- Elton Beauty
- Flowering time ›››
- 1st May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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