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Barre
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
An apple of French origin. Described in 1948. Fruits are sweet, hard and juicy with white flesh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 50.00mm 2
- Width
- 65.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1948 - 310
- Accession name
- Barre (Seine & Marne)
- Flowering time ›››
- 15th May10% flowering
21st MayFull (80%) flowering
1st June90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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