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Verdona
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1958 - 162
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1958 from Italy. Fruits have crisp, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Verdona
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Conical 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Brown 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- mottled/washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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