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Silva
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1945 at Alnarp Agricultural College, Sweden. Introduced in 1970. Fruits have crisp, juicy flesh with a sweet almost strawberry like flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Melba x Stenbock
Accession No.
1978 - 389
- Accession name
- Silva
- Flowering time ›››
- 28th April10% flowering
2nd MayFull (80%) flowering
10th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early August 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Pink 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- absent 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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