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Smiler
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at Clandon, Surrey by A. Simmonds. Recorded in 1934. Fruits have firm, moderately crisp, fine, white tinged green flesh with a moderately sweet, slightly acid, slightly bitter flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 65.50mm 2
- Width
- 69.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- absent 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Crunch
- medium 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1935 - 001
- Accession name
- Smiler
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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