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Porter
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in about 1800 by Rev. Samuel Porter, Sherburne, Massachusetts, USA. Fruits have fine, crisp, tender, yellow flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Jenning's, Jennings, Porter's, Yellow Summer Pearmain
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1950 - 036
- Accession name
- Porter
- Flowering time ›››
- 14th May10% flowering
19th MayFull (80%) flowering
28th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Ellipsoid 1
- Height
- 68.82 mm 1
- Width
- 67.26 mm 1
- Ribbing
- medium 1
- Crown
- medium-strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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