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Webster
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1912 by R. Wellington at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA. Introduced in 1938. Fruits have soft, coarse, greenish white flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Ben Davies X Jonathan x Ben Davies X Jonathan
Accession No.
1951 - 039
- Accession name
- Webster
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 79.98 mm 1
- Width
- 94.72 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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