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Hangdown
type: Cider
synonyms: Horner’s, Hangy Down, Hangydown, Pocket Apple
identification: Small to medium size, round conic. Oval with ridges around the eye. The base colour is yellow over which can be bright red patches and fine, red striping. The stem is exceptionally long and thin and set in a wide and shallow cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, crisp, juicy and sweet.
uses: Cider
origins: Somerset (U.K.) 1800s
cultivation: Weakly vigorous with compact twiggy, drooping growth. Slow to start bearing first fruit, heavy cropper thereafter. Spur bearer.
progeny: Improved Hangdown
vulnerabilities: Susceptible to scab and canker, particularly in warm, moist climates
harvest: Starting late in the fifth period.
notes: Formerly recommended as a good cider apple by Britain's Long Ashton Research Station. That status has been displaced by the Improved Hangdown which is a seedling of the original Hangdown.
juice character: High sugar content, but not enough body to be vintage.
juice_classification: Mild bittersweet
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 17
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
harvest period: 5
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