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Toyo
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Junichiro, Nishiya, Aomori Prefecture, Japan and introduced by them in 1935. Fruits have medium textured flesh with a moderately sweet, subacid and perfumed flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Orient
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Red Delicious x Unknown
Accession No.
1956 - 006
- Accession name
- Toyo
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Pink 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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