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Maldon Wonder
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in about 1900 by A. Mynard at Heybridge, Essex. It was introduced in 1933 by H. Brewer of Maldon. Fruits have firm, fine, crisp, greenish white flesh with an insipid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Ribbing
- absent 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1933 - 019
- Accession name
- Maldon Wonder
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
6th MayFull (80%) flowering
13th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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