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Hunter Sandow
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A tetraploid form of Sandow. Fruits have firm, rather coarse, tender flesh with a sweet to fairly acid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Sandow
Accession No.
1974 - 261
- Accession name
- Hunter Sandow
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Height
- 62.09 mm 1
- Width
- 89.83 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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