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Autumn Harvest
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to have originated in Westmorland. Recorded in 1934. Fruits have firm, tender, coarse, dry flesh with a subacid flavour. Flesh tends to brown very quickly once cut.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1950 - 097
- Accession name
- Autumn Harvest
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late August 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Oblong 1
- Height
- 62.22 mm 1
- Width
- 70.55 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- n/a 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- n/a 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Juiciness
- dry 1
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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