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SummerGlo
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Discovered in 1935 in Calhoun County, Michigan, USA by F.H. McDermid. Introduced by Stark Bros. in 1967. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh with a pleasant vinous flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1974 - 012
- Accession name
- Summerglo
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 65.08 mm 1
- Width
- 65.70 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- high-very high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet
- absent 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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