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Osier
Cider apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A bittersweet cider variety.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
Accession No.
1989 - 100
- Accession name
- Osier
- Flowering time ›››
- 12th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
23rd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 53.03 mm 1
- Width
- 61.11 mm 1
- Ribbing
- medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 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
- 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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