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Sunset Sport
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A more highly coloured sport of Sunset. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1963 from Loughgall Horticultural Centre, Armagh, Northern Ireland. Fruits have firm, crisp, fine-textured flesh with a good aromatic Cox-like flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
Accession No.
1963 - 104
- Accession name
- Sunset sport
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
21st May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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