Topaz
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
Accession No.
1948 - 737
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from East Malling Research Station, Kent. Fruits have soft, coarse, greenish cream flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Topaz
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering 24th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Oblong 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
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