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Florina
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Complex parentage involving Rome Beauty, Golden Delicious, Starking, Simpsons Giant Limb and Jonathan. A scab resistant variety raised at the Station de Recherches d'Arboriculture Fruitiere, Angers, France. Fruits tend to be rather tart and acid.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Complex - see description x Complex - see description
Accession No.
1978 - 342
- Accession name
- Florina
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
5th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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, September 2019