King's Acre Bountiful
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Introduced in 1904 by King's Acre Nurseries, Hereford. Received Award of merit from RHS in 1904. Fruits have firm, greenish white flesh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Croft Pendarren)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Donnington)
Accession No.
1987 - 094
- Accession name
- King's Acre Bountiful
- Flowering time ›››
- 19th May10% flowering
23rd MayFull (80%) flowering 29th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Height
- 70.06 mm 1
- Width
- 94.28 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1

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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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