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Shinsei
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1930 at Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan. Named in 1948. Fruits have crisp, white flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Golden Delicious x Early McIntosh
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 57.00mm 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Pink 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1953 - 002
- Accession name
- Shinsei
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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