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Red Army
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at Eynsham, Oxford by F.W.Wastie. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1945. Fruits have firm, crisp, creamy white flesh with a slightly sweet, subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Chatley's Kernel x Worcester Pearmain
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 48.00mm 2
- Width
- 54.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1945 - 057
- Accession name
- Red Army
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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