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Fiesta
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1972 at East Malling Research Station, Kent. It received an Award of Merit in 1987 from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits are crisp and juicy with a Cox-like flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Red Pippin
- Availability
- Material in the National Fruit Collection not currently available.
- Parentage:
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Idared
Accession No.
1983 - 038
- Accession name
- Fiesta
- Flowering time ›››
- 29th April10% flowering
2nd MayFull (80%) flowering
10th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 58.69 mm 1
- Width
- 70.11 mm 1
- Ribbing
- absent 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Juiciness
- juicy-very juicy 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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