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Prince Nicolas
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 57.00mm 2
- Width
- 63.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- low 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1949 - 113
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1949 from Switzerland. Fruits have firm, fine, crisp, greenish white flesh with a slightly sweet flavour.
- Accession name
- Prince Nicolas
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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