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Measday's Favourite
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1939 - 020
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1939 from George Bunyard & Co. Ltd., Maidstone, Kent. Fruits have fairly crisp, tender, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Measday's Favourite
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 64.08 mm 1
- Width
- 76.04 mm 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low-medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Juiciness
- dry 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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