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Zomer Delicious
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at IVT, Wageningen, the Netherlands. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1966. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1966 - 047
- Accession name
- Zomer Delicious
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
21st May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Pink 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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