Dukat Spur
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A spur type clone of Dukat, producing larger fruit. Selected by A. Dvorak at the Plant Breeding Station, Techobuzice, Czechoslovakia. Fruits are sweet with rather coarse-textured flesh.
Availability
Material in the National Fruit Collection not currently available.
Parentage:
Golden Delicious x Cox's Orange Pippin
Accession name
Dukat spur type
Flowering time
25th April 10% flowering
28th April Full (80%) flowering
7th May 90% petal fall
Picking time
Mid October 1
Size
large 1
Type
Dessert 1
Shape
Globose conical 1
Height
65.37 mm 1
Width
72.03 mm 1
Ribbing
weak 1
Crown
weak-medium 1
Ground Colour
Yellow 1
Over Colour (Amount)
medium 1
Over Colour
Orange 1
Over Colour (Pattern)
striped/mottled 1
Russet
low-medium 1
Firmness
firm-very firm 1
Flesh Colour
Yellowish 1
References:
1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register