Mors de Veau
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 58.50mm 2
- Width
- 64.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1948 - 329
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from Switzerland. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Mors de Veau
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering 23rd May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid October 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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