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Ontario (4n)
A tetraploid clone of Ontario. Fruits are slightly acid eaten as a dessert. Cooks well.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Ontario
Accession No.
1965 - 037
- Accession name
- Ontario
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering
22nd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- mottled/washed out 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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