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Mere de Baia
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1948 - 688
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from Romania. Fruits have crisp, coarse, creamy white flesh with a slightly sweet, subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Mere de Baia
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
21st May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Pink 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- mottled/washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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