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Gascoyne's Scarlet
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Culinary / Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Fruit height
- 70.7 mm
- Fruit width
- 82.2 mm
source: NFC
source: NFC
Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.
Gascoyne's Scarlet is a large red English dessert apple developed in Kent in 1871. Primarily eaten fresh or cooked, it earned an RHS FCC award in 1887 and is typically harvested from mid-to-late September and stored through January.
Best Uses
fresh_eatingcooking
Lineage
Parents
Origin & History
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 2207
- Wikidata
- Q19597274