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Barnack Beauty Sport
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A more highly coloured sport of Barnack Beauty which was discovered in 1944 by George Lamb, Swanley, Kent. Fruits, like Barnack Beauty, are sweet, crisp and juicy with a good flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1944 - 012
- Accession name
- Barnack Beauty sport
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
21st May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- very weak 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- mottled/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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