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Mimi
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1935 at the Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Fruits have fine, soft, yellow flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Jonathan x Cox's Orange Pippin
Accession No.
1955 - 012
- Accession name
- Mimi
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp-very crisp 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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