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Glengyle Red
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A more highly coloured sport of Rome Beauty. It originated in 1914 at Balhannah, South Australia. Fruits have creamy white, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh but with little flavour. Skin tends to be tough.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Rome Beauty
Accession No.
1950 - 129
- Accession name
- Glengyle Red
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
17th MayFull (80%) flowering
25th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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