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Jupiter
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Triploid. Raised in 1966 at East Malling Research Station, Kent. It was introduced in 1981. Fruits are sweet and juicy with a good texture and Cox-like flavour.
- Availability
- Material in the National Fruit Collection not currently available.
- Parentage:
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Starking
Accession No.
1972 - 191
- Accession name
- Jupiter
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
22nd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 70.93 mm 1
- Width
- 79.09 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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