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Redwing
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to have been raised by Charles Ross. Recorded in 1908. Fruits have soft, mealy, creamy yellow flesh with a very sweet flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Red Wing
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 54.00mm 2
- Width
- 64.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Greasiness
- Weak 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1978 - 219
- Accession name
- Redwing
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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