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Tan Harvey
Cider apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Trees found in 1980 by James Evans in the Tamar Valley, Cornwall. A good, reliable, heavy cropping cider apple which produces a bittersweet cider.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
Accession No.
1992 - 135
- Accession name
- Tan Harvey
- Flowering time ›››
- 25th April10% flowering
28th AprilFull (80%) flowering
9th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Height
- 41.52 mm 1
- Width
- 54.86 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Pink 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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