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Ruzena Blahova
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Mother x James Grieve
Accession No.
1974 - 206
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1974 from Prague University, Czechoslovakia. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Accession name
- Ruzena Blahova
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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