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Norfolk Royal
type: Cooking, Eating
identification: Medium to large in size and conical in shape. Skin has a yellow base colour extensively covered with flushes and streaks of bright red, heaviest of the sun exposed face. When ripe the surface of the skin feels noticably greasy.
characteristics: Flesh is creamy white, crisp, sweet and juicy. Four months in cold storage.
uses: A good fresh eating apple. Also used for cooking.
origins: Found in 1905/1908? as a chance seedling at Wright’s Nursery in North Walsham, England,
cultivation: Moderately vigorous up right spreading partial tip bearer. Cold hardy. Bears moderately,but tends to be biennia Ready for harvest early in the THIRD period. Resistant to scab
notes: Norfolk Royal Russet is a sport of Norfolk Royal. Better flavour, russeted with red on sun exposed face.A russet spor of Norfolk Royal, found by Rev. C.E.Wright in his garden at Burnham Overy Staithes in 1983.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Self sterile. Group D. Day 14.
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