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Sussex Mother
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in Sussex, England. Described in 1884. Fruits have soft, tender, greenish white flesh with a subacid and slightly sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1950 - 002
- Accession name
- Sussex Mother
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 55.94 mm 1
- Width
- 61.53 mm 1
- Ribbing
- medium-strong 1
- Crown
- medium-strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019