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White Quarrenden
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Exhibited by Veitch, Exeter, Devon. Recorded in 1831. Fruits have soft, sweetish flesh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1979 - 124
- Accession name
- White Quarrenden
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid August 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Ribbing
- medium 1
- Crown
- medium-strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Juiciness
- dry 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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