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Fromme Scab Resistant
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1953 - 165
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1953 from Virginia Agricultural Station, USA. Fruits have firm, coarse flesh with a very acid flavour.
- Accession name
- Fromme Scab Resistant
- Flowering time ›››
- 15th May10% flowering
21st MayFull (80%) flowering
28th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- small 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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