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Goro
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1951 at the Swiss Federal Research Station, Wadenswil. Named and released in 1973. Fruits have crisp, juicy flesh with an aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Golden Delicious x Schweizer Orange
Accession No.
1974 - 356
- Accession name
- Goro
- Flowering time ›››
- 15th May10% flowering
17th MayFull (80%) flowering
27th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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