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Atlas
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada from seed sown in 1898. Introduced in about 1924. Fruits have juicy, soft flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Manks Codlin x Unknown
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Ribbing
- medium-strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1950 - 127
- Accession name
- Atlas
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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