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Roanoke
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1949 by George D. Oberle, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, USA. Introduced in 1967. Fruits are crisp and juicy with a mild flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Red Rome x Schoharie (Northern Spy cross)
Accession No.
1974 - 069
- Accession name
- Roanoke
- Flowering time ›››
- 15th May10% flowering
20th MayFull (80%) flowering
26th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 62.77 mm 1
- Width
- 73.87 mm 1
- Ribbing
- very weak 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- absent 1
- Crunch
- crumbly 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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