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Golden Spire
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Culinary / Cider
Measured Phenotype
- Fruit height
- 67.5 mm
- Fruit width
- 63.5 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.
Golden Spire is a 19th-century Lancashire apple with pale yellow, soft flesh and tart flavour. An unusually tall and oblong variety suitable for cooking, cider, and fresh eating, it picks in early September and keeps through October.
Flavor & Texture
tartjuicysoft
Best Uses
cookingcider_blendfresh_eating
Lineage
Parents
Offspring
Origin & History
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 2376
- Wikidata
- Q5579803