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Ranger
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at the Research Station, Ottawa, Canada. Introduced in 1964. Fruits have tender, white flesh with a mild flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Crimson Beauty (Canada) x Melba
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1965 - 010
- Accession name
- Ranger
- Flowering time ›››
- 27th April10% flowering
3rd MayFull (80%) flowering
12th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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