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Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
A medium-sized, roundish dessert apple with dark green shading to brownish-red striped skin. The flesh is greenish-yellow, firm, crisp, and juicy with a brisk vinous flavor. An excellent first-rate quality apple in use from Christmas to April.
Flavor & Texture
briskvinousfirmcrispjuicy
Best Uses
fresh_eatingdessert
Lineage
Parents
Origin & History
- Status
- commercial
- Origin type
- deliberate cross
- Original breeder
- Thomas Hunt, Esq.
briskvinous
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 5754
- Cited authority (Hogg 1851)
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