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Simonffy Piros
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in Hungary. Recorded in 1876. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a very sweet, subacid, perfumed, strawberry like flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Simonffy Roth
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1948 - 400
- Accession name
- Simonffy Piros
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- small 1
- Shape
- Oblong 1
- Ribbing
- very weak 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- fine 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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