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Rosanne
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated with Mr Waller of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Fruits have soft, juicy, pink stained flesh with a perfumed flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Devonshire Quarrenden x Democrat
Accession No.
1974 - 323
- Accession name
- Rosanne
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Dark Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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