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Sandow
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Selected in 1912 at the Central Experiment Farm, Ottawa, Canada. Introduced in 1935. Fruits have firm, coarse, tender, creamy white flesh with a sweet to fairly acid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Northern Spy x Unknown
- Sports:
- Hunter Sandow
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 55.50mm 2
- Width
- 73.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1930 - 044
- Accession name
- Sandow
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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