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Margaret Taylor
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Found in a garden hedge at Witley, Surrey, England by F.E. Taylor. Exhibited in 1944. Fruits have coarse, rather dry flesh with an insipid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 57.00mm 2
- Width
- 63.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- absent 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Juiciness
- dry 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1944 - 056
- Accession name
- Margaret Taylor
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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