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Eros
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1947 by W.D. Seabrook at Boreham, Essex. Fruits have crisp flesh with a subacid, slightly sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Parentage:
- Worcester Pearmain x Charles Ross
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 57.50mm 2
- Width
- 78.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
1963 - 005
- Accession name
- Eros
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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