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Mrs. Barron
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Exhibited in 1883 by The Royal Horticultural Society at the Fruit Conference. Fruits have soft, tender, dry, yellow tinged orange flesh with a sweet and subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Large America, Large American
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 72.00mm 2
- Width
- 77.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Juiciness
- dry 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
2000 - 069
- Accession name
- Mrs. Barron
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
21st May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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