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Newport Cross
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1920 at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol by G.T. Spinks. Fruits have firm, rather coarse, dry flesh with an insipid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Devonshire Quarrenden x Cox's Orange Pippin
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 66.00mm 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Juiciness
- dry 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1957 - 236
- Accession name
- Newport Cross
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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