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McLiver's Winesap
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Winesap x Unknown
Accession No.
1951 - 250
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1950 from New Zealand. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- McLiver's Winesap
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- small 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Juiciness
- dry-medium 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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