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Geneva Ontario
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Tetraploid. A sport of Ontario having larger fruit. It was found in the orchard of New York state Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA. Fruits have rather coarse, soft flesh with a subacid and sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Ontario
Accession No.
1966 - 002
- Accession name
- Geneva Ontario (NY)
- Flowering time ›››
- 12th May10% flowering
18th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- mottled/solid flush 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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