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Beverly Hills
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1939 by Dr W.H. Chandler, University of California, USA. Introduced in 1945. Fruits have soft, tender white flesh with a sweet subacid, scented flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Melba x Early McIntosh
Accession No.
1964 - 033
- Accession name
- Beverly Hills
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- absent 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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