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Improved Dove
Cider apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A seedling thought to have originated in Somerset in the early 1900s. A mild, bittersweet variety.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
Accession No.
1989 - 090
- Accession name
- Improved Dove
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- small 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 56.30 mm 1
- Width
- 59.80 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped 1
- Russet
- low 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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