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Pikkolo
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at the Institute of Fruit Research, Dresden-Pillnitz, Germany. Fruits have sweet, crisp flesh.
- Availability
- Material in the National Fruit Collection not currently available.
- Parentage:
- Clivia x Auralia
Accession No.
1994 - 054
- Accession name
- Pikkolo
- Flowering time ›››
- 29th April10% flowering
1st MayFull (80%) flowering
11th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 60.01 mm 1
- Width
- 65.91 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- very 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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