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Green Custard
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1941 - 028
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1941 from J. Cheal, nurserymen from Crawley, Sussex. Fruits have soft, whitish flesh with a slightly subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Green Custard
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Ellipsoid 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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