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Hume
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1898 at the Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. It was selected in 1916 and introduced in 1921. Fruits have soft, white tinged pink flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- McIntosh x Unknown
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 60.00mm 2
- Width
- 74.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Dark Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1925 - 020
- Accession name
- Hume
- Flowering time ›››
- 30th April10% flowering
5th MayFull (80%) flowering
13th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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