Imperiale
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- York Imperial x Unknown
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 45.00mm 2
- Width
- 57.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1947 - 462
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1947 from Angers, France. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a slightly sweet and subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Imperiale
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering 17th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
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