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Caroline Hopkins
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Found growing wild at Worcester, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. It was sent to the National Fruit Trials in 1956. Fruits have crisp, acid, slightly astringent flesh. This variety is said to root from cuttings and in South Africa is said to bloom and fruit twice in a year.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 56.00mm 2
- Width
- 62.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium-strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1956 - 035
- Accession name
- Caroline Hopkins
- Flowering time ›››
- 28th April10% flowering
3rd MayFull (80%) flowering
10th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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