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Quinte
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at the Experimental Farm, Smithfield, Ontario, Canada. Introduced in 1964. Fruits have tender, cream, sweet flesh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Crimson Beauty (Canada) x Red Melba
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1965 - 009
- Accession name
- Quinte
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
6th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid August 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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