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Bancroft
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in Ottawa, Canada by the Division of Horticulture Experimental Farm. It was selected in 1930 and introduced in about 1935. Fruits have firm, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Bankroft
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Forest x McIntosh
Accession No.
1950 - 150
- Accession name
- Bancroft
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
13th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Height
- 71.41 mm 1
- Width
- 78.90 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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