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Ard Cairn Russet
type: Dessert
synonyms: Almey
summary: A sweet, firm dessert apple with a flavour of banana, first grown in Ireland during the late 1800s.
identification: Ard Cairns are medium size and round conic. The base colour is golden yellow washed reddish-orange with darker striping on the sun exposed side. Patches of thick, brown russet are common, especially around the eye and stem, occasionally covering the entire apple. Small russeted lenticels are abundantly scattered over the surface, but appear most prominent on the shaded face. The calix is moderately large and partly open in a wide, moderately shallow, russetted basin. The stem is medium length and medium thick, set in a russeted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-yellow, often with faint reddish stains around the core. Dry, sweet and firm with a flavour reminiscent of banana. Almost no acidity.
origins: Developed from a seedling found sometime around 1890 at an orchard near Templemore, County Cork (Ireland) and was subsequently catalogued in 1907 by nurseryman William Baylor Hartland who, by this time, had relocated the family' s nursery business to Ardcairn, also in County Cork.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading tree. Tip bearer.
cold storage: Keeps for about two months, becoming sweeter with time.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to scab.
harvest: Late in the fourth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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