Tom Putt
Culinary / Cider apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A culinary and cider apple. Raised by Rev. Tom Putt, Rector of Trent, Somerset in the late 1700s. In use from September to November. Fruits have crisp, juicy, acid flesh. Cooks well. Produces a sharp cider.
- Synonyms:
- Coalbrook, Devonshire Nine Square, Izod's Kernel, January Tom Putt, Jeffrey's Seedling, Jeffreys' Seedling, Marrow Bone, Marrow-Bone, Ploughman, Thomas Jeffreys, Thos. Jeffreys, Tom Potter, Tom Put
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Donnington)
- Sports:
- Sidney Strake
Accession No.
1921 - 084
- Accession name
- Tom Putt
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering 18th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Height
- 63.04 mm 1
- Width
- 78.02 mm 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Juiciness
- dry-medium 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 1


- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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