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Geeveston Fanny
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to have originated at Geeveston, Tasmania, Australia where the oldest known tree grew in the orchard of James Evans in 1880. Fruits have crisp flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Sports:
- Red Geeveston Fanny
Accession No.
1952 - 034
- Accession name
- Geeveston Fanny
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- small 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled/solid flush 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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