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Sunburn
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at Hornchurch, Essex, by F.W. Thorrington. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1925. Fruits have soft, creamy white flesh with a sweet, subacid, aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Parentage:
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- Shape
- Conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 48.00mm 2
- Width
- 60.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1925 - 033
- Accession name
- Sunburn (M26)
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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