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Horei
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1931 at Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan. Introduced in 1949. Fruits have very firm flesh with a fairly sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Ralls Janet x Golden Delicious
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 54.00mm 2
- Width
- 53.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1953 - 014
- Accession name
- Horei
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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