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Nugget
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Discovered in 1954 by Homer S. Kemp, Bountiful Ridge Nurseries, Princess Anne, Maryland, USA. It was introduced in 1966. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy with a good aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Golden Delicious x Unknown
Accession No.
1975 - 033
- Accession name
- Nugget
- Flowering time ›››
- 12th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering
22nd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- small 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 50.97 mm 1
- Width
- 58.76 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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