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Port Allen Russet
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in Port Allen, Errol, Scotland. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1958. Fruits have fine, greenish white flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1958 - 023
- Accession name
- Port Allen Russet
- Flowering time ›››
- 29th April10% flowering
5th MayFull (80%) flowering
12th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Truncate conical 1
- Ribbing
- medium 1
- Crown
- strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Pink 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019