Kandile
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1957 - 076
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1957 from Bulgaria. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Kandile
- Flowering time ›››
- 13th May10% flowering
18th MayFull (80%) flowering 26th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Brown 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- dry-medium 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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