Simonffy Piros

Dessert apple

Dessert apple

Malus domestica Borkh.

Originated in Hungary. Recorded in 1876. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a very sweet, subacid, perfumed, strawberry like flavour.

Synonyms:
Simonffy Roth

Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Fruit Size
small ^b

Fruit Shape
intermediate, rectangular, sometimes truncate-conic, convex ^b

Fruit Height
39-43 mm ^b

Fruit Width
44-50 mm ^b

Ribbing
slightly ribbed at apex and occasionally on body ^b

Ground Colour
yellowish green ^b

Over Colour
almost entirely covered red with purplish red stripes and patches ^b

Russet Type
sometimes a little russet at base ^b

Flesh Colour
white to greenish white, sometimes red under skin ^b

Skin Texture
perfumed ^b

Flesh Texture
firm, fine ^b

Flavour
very sweet, subacid, perfumed, strawberrylike ^b

Accession No.
1948 - 400   fingerprint   check_circle

Accession name
Simonffy Piros

Flowering time
2nd May 10% flowering
9th May Full (80%) flowering
18th May 90% petal fall

Picking time
Mid October ^a

Size
small ^a

Type
Dessert ^a

Shape
Oblong ^a

Ribbing
very weak ^a

Crown
weak ^a

Ground Colour
Green yellow ^a

Over Colour (Amount)
very high ^a

Over Colour
Red ^a

Over Colour (Pattern)
striped/solid flush ^a

Russet
low ^a

Firmness
firm ^a

Coarseness
fine ^a

Flesh Colour
White ^a

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References:
a. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
b. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register