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Acme
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1944 at Boreham, Essex by W. Seabrook & Sons Ltd. Fruits have firm, cream flesh with a slightly perfumed flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Parentage:
- Worcester Pearmain X Rival x Cox's Orange Pippin
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 62.00mm 2
- Width
- 72.00mm 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Pink 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1956 - 013
- Accession name
- Acme
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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