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Mount Rainier
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to be of Dutch origin. In existence in 1929. Fruits have fine, crisp, yellowish flesh with a very sweet, aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Ribbing
- strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
1948 - 740
- Accession name
- Mount Rainier
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019