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Scotia
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada. Selected in 1948 and introduced in 1961. Fruits have soft, melting, white flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- McIntosh x Unknown
Accession No.
1965 - 027
- Accession name
- Scotia
- Flowering time ›››
- 1st May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late August 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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