Pero Dourado
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1952 - 031
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1952 from Portugal. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Pero Dourada
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering 17th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Oblong conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1

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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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