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Wrixparent
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to be a sport of Yellow Transparent. Discovered in 1920 in Magnolia, Kent County, Delaware, U.S.A. by Wrixham McIlvaine. Introduced in 1940. Fruits have crisp, coarse, juicy flesh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- White Transparent x Unknown
Accession No.
1974 - 265
- Accession name
- Wrixparent
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early August 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Ribbing
- medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- mottled/washed out 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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