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Glebe Gold
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by James Walker, Ham, Surrey. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1945. Fruits have soft, creamy white flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Yellow Ingestrie x Cellini
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- small 2
- Height
- 35.50mm 2
- Width
- 42.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- absent 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1945 - 013
- Accession name
- Glebe Gold
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
21st May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late August 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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