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Byford Wonder
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
An apple of UK origin. Recorded in 1893. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1893. Fruits have coarse, tender flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Donnington)
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 83.00mm 2
- Width
- 99.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- low 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
2000 - 024
- Accession name
- Byford Wonder
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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