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Sharon
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1906 by S.A. Beach, Iowa State Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames, USA. Introduced in 1922. Fruits have crisp, fine, tender, whitish green flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- McIntosh x Glogerovka
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 61.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1923 - 073
- Accession name
- Sharon
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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