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Megumi
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1931 at Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan. It was named in 1948. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Ralls Janet x Jonathan
Accession No.
1953 - 009
- Accession name
- Megumi
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
12th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Oblong 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 1
Accession No.
1967 - 086
- Accession name
- Megumi
- Flowering time ›››
- 12th May10% flowering
17th MayFull (80%) flowering
25th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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