Puffin
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in Somerset, England. Described in 1883. Fruits have soft, tender flesh with a very sweet flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Bear and Tear, Come Bear and Tear, Puffin Sweet, Sweet Orcombe, Sweet Orcome
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1950 - 285
- Accession name
- Puffin
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering 15th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 90.35 mm 1
- Width
- 97.11 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Juiciness
- dry 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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