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Aroma
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1945 at Balsgard Fruit Breeding Institute, Sweden. Introduced in 1973. Fruits have very juicy, melting flesh with a good flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Ingrid Marie x Fillippa
- Sports:
- Amorosa
Accession No.
1968 - 039
- Accession name
- Aroma
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering
23rd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Height
- 66.01 mm 1
- Width
- 80.83 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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