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Baron Wood
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1999 - 074
Thought to have been acquired by the National Fruit Trials in the late 1940s. Cooks well.
- Accession name
- Baron Wood
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Height
- 52.88 mm 1
- Width
- 71.90 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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