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Hunter Spartan
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A tetraploid form of Spartan. Fruits have crisp, juicy flesh with a refreshing vinous flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Spartan
Accession No.
1974 - 062
- Accession name
- Hunter Spartan
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Dark Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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