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Bascombe Mystery
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Dessert. First recorded in 1831. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a sweet to subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Bascomb Mystery, Bascombe's Mystery
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 61.50mm 2
- Width
- 73.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- low 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1935 - 006
- Accession name
- Bascombe Mystery
- Flowering time ›››
- 12th May10% flowering
17th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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