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Fuji
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1939 by H. Niitsu at the Horticultural Research Station, Nakahara, Japan. It was named in 1962. Fruits have crisp, juicy flesh with a slightly subacid flavour. Fruits often fail to mature fully in the UK.
- Synonyms:
- Fuji INRA Type4 - Nagafu(No2) INFEL 6671
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Ralls Janet x Delicious
- Shape
- Ellipsoid 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 58.50mm 2
- Width
- 62.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
Accession No.
1963 - 019
- Accession name
- Fuji
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
Accession No.
2001 - 013
- Accession name
- Fuji INRA Type4 - Nagafu (No2) INFEL 6671
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019