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Lobo
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1898 at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. It was introduced in Canada in 1910. Fruits have rather soft, fairly fine-textured, juicy flesh with a pleasant vinous flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- McIntosh x Unknown
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 64.00mm 2
- Width
- 78.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1979 - 171
- Accession name
- Lobo (LA 72A)
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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