Red Fortune
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A more highly coloured clone of Fortune. Fruits have fairly firm, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet and good aromatic flavour.
Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Parentage:
Sport of Fortune
Accession name
Red Fortune (EMLA 1)
Flowering time
5th May 10% flowering
10th May Full (80%) flowering
18th May 90% petal fall
Picking time
Early September 1
Size
medium-large 1
Type
Dessert 1
Shape
Globose 1
Ribbing
weak 1
Crown
very weak 1
Ground Colour
Whitish green 1
Over Colour (Amount)
medium 1
Over Colour
Orange 1
Over Colour (Pattern)
striped 1
Russet
low 1
Flesh Colour
White 1
References:
1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register