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Roxbury Russet
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in the early 1600s in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Fruits have firm, somewhat coarse, fairly tender flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Belper Russet, Belpre Russet, Boston or Roxbury, Boston or Roxbury Russet, Boston Russet, English Russet, Hewe's Russet, Howe's Russet, Jusset, Manetta Russet, Mariett's Ruseet, Marietta Russet, Pitman's Russet, Pomme Russet, Putman, Putman Russet, Putman' Russet, Putman's Russet, Putnam Russet, Putnam Russet of Ohio, Reinette Rousse de Boston, Reinette von Roxbury, Renet Bostonskii, Rox, Rox Russet, Roxburg Russet, Roxbury, Roxbury Russeting, Ruginetta di Boston, Russet, Russete, Russeting, Schippen's Russet, Shippen's, Shippen's Russet, Shippeus Russet, Shippin's Russet, Sylvan Russet, Warner Russet, Warner's Russet
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Donnington)
Accession No.
1952 - 111
- Accession name
- Roxbury Russet
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
21st May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green 1
- Over Colour
- Brown 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- high-very high 1
- Greasiness
- Weak 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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