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Marie-Madeleine
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Russet
- low-medium 2
- Crunch
- crisp-very crisp 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1947 - 219
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1947 from France. Fruits have coarse, crisp, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Marie-Madeleine
- Flowering time ›››
- 15th May10% flowering
22nd MayFull (80%) flowering
29th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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