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Verde Doncella
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1957 - 082
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1957 from Spain. Fruits have hard white flesh.
- Accession name
- Verde Doncella
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
23rd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 62.05 mm 1
- Width
- 77.52 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Crunch
- crisp-very crisp 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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