Red Fortune

Dessert apple

Malus domestica Borkh.

A more highly coloured clone of Fortune. Fruits have fairly firm, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet and good aromatic flavour.

Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Parentage:
Sport of Fortune

Accession No.
1979 - 180   fingerprint   check_circle

Accession name
Red Fortune (EMLA 1)

Flowering time
5th May 10% flowering
10th May Full (80%) flowering
18th May 90% petal fall

Picking time
Early September ^a

Size
medium-large ^a

Type
Dessert ^a

Shape
Globose ^a

Ribbing
weak ^a

Crown
very weak ^a

Ground Colour
Whitish green ^a

Over Colour (Amount)
medium ^a

Over Colour
Orange ^a

Over Colour (Pattern)
striped ^a

Russet
low ^a

Flesh Colour
White ^a

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References:
a. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.