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Joybells
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Fruit height
- 57.0 mm
- Fruit width
- 75.0 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.
Joybells is a dessert apple bred in Surrey in 1914, featuring pale yellow skin with red flush and crisp, juicy, sweet flesh. Awarded an RHS AGM in 1922, it reaches about 77 mm in width and is picked in late September for autumn and winter storage.
Flavor & Texture
sweetcrispjuicy
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Lineage
Parents
Origin & History
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 3100
- Wikidata
- Q41778484