Millicent Barnes

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Dessert

Introduced

1903

Origin

Chester, England, United Kingdom

Measured Phenotype

Fruit height: 67.0 mm
Fruit width: 70.0 mm

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Millicent Barnes is a yellow apple with red flushing, developed in Chester, England in 1903 from a cross of Gascoyne's Scarlet and Cox Orange Pippin. The fruit measures approximately 69 mm wide by 63 mm tall, with flesh that lacks distinctive flavour. It is typically picked in mid-September and stores for use through October to December.

Lineage

Parents

Cox Orange Pippin Gascoyne's Scarlet Gascoyne's Scarlet x Cox's Orange Pippin

Offspring

Millicent Barnes Sport

Origin & History

Origin type: deliberate cross

References

UK National Fruit Collection: 3980
Wikidata: Q41779428