Red Fortune

Dessert apple

Malus domestica Borkh.

A more highly coloured clone of Fortune. Fruits have fairly firm, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet and good aromatic flavour.

Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Parentage:
Sport of Fortune

Accession No.
1979 - 180   fingerprint   check_circle

Accession name
Red Fortune (EMLA 1)

Flowering time
5th May 10% flowering
10th May Full (80%) flowering
18th May 90% petal fall

Picking time
Early September 1

Size
medium-large 1

Type
Dessert 1

Shape
Globose 1

Ribbing
weak 1

Crown
very weak 1

Ground Colour
Whitish green 1

Over Colour (Amount)
medium 1

Over Colour
Orange 1

Over Colour (Pattern)
striped 1

Russet
low 1

Flesh Colour
White 1


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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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