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Hounslow Wonder
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Introduced by Spooner, nurseryman of Hounslow, Middlesex. It was recorded in 1910 when it also received an Award of Merit from the RHS. Fruits have fine, firm, crisp flesh with an acid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Dumelow's Seedling x Unknown
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 54.00mm 2
- Width
- 68.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1941 - 030
- Accession name
- Hounslow Wonder
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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