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Golden Knob
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated at Enmore Castle, Somerset. It has been grown since the late 1700s. Fruits have firm flesh with a sweet and nutty flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Golden Nobb, Kentish Golden Knob, Old Lady, Old Maid
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- small 2
- Height
- 35.50mm 2
- Width
- 42.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- absent 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- low 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Coarseness
- very fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1946 - 023
- Accession name
- Golden Knob
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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