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Green Harvey
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
Accession No.
1930 - 039
Received by the National Fruit Trials from Cambridgeshire. It was recorded in 1813. Fruits have firm, tough flesh with an acid flavour.
- Accession name
- Green Harvey
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
21st May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 62.46 mm 1
- Width
- 73.60 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Strong 1
- Crunch
- crumbly 1
- Juiciness
- dry-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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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