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Canvada
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1957 - 084
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1957 from South Africa but is not thought to be of South African origin. Described in about 1926. Fruits have firm, tender, somewhat coarse flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Canvada
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- n/a 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- n/a 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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