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Rubens
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at the Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, Netherlands. Recorded in 1954 and introduced in 1955. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Reinette Rouge Etoilee x Cox's Orange Pippin
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 54.00mm 2
- Width
- 57.00mm 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Greasiness
- Weak 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1955 - 008
- Accession name
- Rubens
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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