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Perrine York
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Tetraploid. A clone of York Imperial. Found by D.B. Perrine, Centralia, Illinois, USA. Fruits have firm, crisp, moderately tender flesh with a subacid to sweetish, aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1974 - 264
- Accession name
- Perrine York
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
18th MayFull (80%) flowering
25th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Ribbing
- medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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