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Jupp's Russet A
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1951 - 245
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1951 from New Zealand. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Jupp's Russet A
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering
22nd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- very weak 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- mottled/washed out 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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