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Frederick
Cider apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in the Forest of Dean, Monmouthshire in the 19th Century. Slow to come into cropping and crops tend to be rather irregular. The small to medium sized fruits have crisp, white, often tinged with red flesh with a sharp flavour but no astringency. Produces a
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
Accession No.
1989 - 085
- Accession name
- Frederick
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- small 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 48.20 mm 1
- Width
- 59.80 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- high-very high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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