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Gambafina
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to have originated in about 1900 near Carraglio, province of Cuneo, Italy. Fruits have soft, greenish white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1958 - 041
- Accession name
- Gambafina
- Flowering time ›››
- 13th May10% flowering
18th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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