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Greensleeves
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Fruit height
- 64.7 mm
- Fruit width
- 74.3 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.
Greensleeves is a dessert apple developed in Kent, England in 1966 from a cross of Golden Delicious and James Grieve. Named after the famous Renaissance song, it is a serviceable garden apple with pleasant but unremarkable flavour, though it can be susceptible to apple scab.
Flavor & Texture
pleasant
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Lineage
Parents
Origin & History
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 2495
- Wikidata
- Q10508645