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Scarlet Nonpareil
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in about 1773 in the garden of an inn at Esher, Surrey. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1901. Fruits have fine, creamy white flesh with a subacid and rich flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Ecarlate sans pareille, New Scarlet Nompareil, New Scarlet Nonpareil, New Scarlet Nonpariel, New-Scarlet Nonpareil, Non Pareille Ecarlate, Non-Pareille Ecarlate, Nonpareil Ecarlate, Nonpareil Scarlet, Saint Augustine's Orange, Scharlachroter Nonpareil, Scharlachrothe Nonpareil, Scharlachrother Nonpareil, Sheppard's Nonpareil
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Father to:
- Oxford Beauty
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 42.00mm 2
- Width
- 57.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- absent 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Greasiness
- Weak 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1951 - 005
- Accession name
- Scarlet Nonpareil
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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