Nelson's Favourite
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1958 - 022
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1958 from Kendal, Westmorland. Fruits have firm, rather coarse, greenish white flesh with an acid flavour.
- Accession name
- Nelson's Favourite
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering 15th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crumbly 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 1

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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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