Pero Mingan
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1947 - 133
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1947 from France but thought to have originated in Spain. Fruits have soft, sweet flesh with little flavour.
- Accession name
- Pero Mingan
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering 17th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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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