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Aori
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at Aomori Apple Experimental Station, Japan. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1977. Fruits are very sweet and tend to have a tough skin.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Toko x Richared Delicious
Accession No.
1977 - 114
- Accession name
- Aori
- Flowering time ›››
- 1st May10% flowering
5th MayFull (80%) flowering
12th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, November 2015