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Harling Hero
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Mr Claxton, a gardener of East Harling, Norfolk. Fruits have juicy, melting flesh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
Accession No.
1994 - 023
- Accession name
- Harling Hero
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
6th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 60.37 mm 1
- Width
- 75.24 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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