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   fingerprint   check_circle

Accession name
Simonffy Piros

Flowering time
2nd May 10% flowering
9th May Full (80%) flowering
18th May 90% petal fall

Picking time
Mid October 1

Size
small 1

Type
Dessert 1

Shape
Oblong 1

Ribbing
very weak 1

Crown
weak 1

Ground Colour
Green yellow 1

Over Colour (Amount)
very high 1

Over Colour
Red 1

Over Colour (Pattern)
striped/solid flush 1

Russet
low 1

Firmness
firm 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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