Lemon Queen
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1950 - 058
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1950 from Scotland. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Lemon Queen
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering 21st May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Height
- 67.06 mm 1
- Width
- 83.72 mm 1
- Ribbing
- medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Juiciness
- dry-medium 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 1


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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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