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Giambun
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1958 - 043
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1958 from Italy. Fruits have firm, coarse flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Giambun
- Flowering time ›››
- 14th May10% flowering
20th MayFull (80%) flowering
27th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Ellipsoid conical 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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