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Kenneth
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1920 by Kenneth McCreadie at Rhyl, Wales. Fruits have somewhat coarse, soft flesh with a subacid and sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 57.50mm 2
- Width
- 66.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
Accession No.
1948 - 617
- Accession name
- Kenneth
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
23rd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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