Primate
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to have originated with Calvin D. Bingham at Camillus, Onondaga County, New York, USA in about 1840. Fruits have crisp, fine, tender, whitish flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Belle Rose, Early Baldwin, Early Tart Harvest, Harvest, Highland Pippin, Jenkin's Summer Pippin, July Apple, North American Best, Power's, Powers, Primates, Rough and Ready, Ryerson, Scott, Sour Harvest, Zour Bough
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1950 - 037
- Accession name
- Primate
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering 13th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 67.85 mm 1
- Width
- 78.80 mm 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Juiciness
- dry 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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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