Lorna Doone
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
Accession No.
1958 - 017
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1958 from Hereford, England. Fruits have soft, mealy flesh with a slightly subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Lorna Doone
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering 19th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Late August 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Height
- 70.73 mm 1
- Width
- 86.57 mm 1
- Ribbing
- medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Pink 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Juiciness
- dry 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1

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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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