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RF: Pendragon
type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert
summary: An unusual apple from Cornwall with deep pink blossoms and produces a red-fleshed fruit.
identification: Small to medium. Round and somewhat conic. The skin is entirely washed dark red. The stem is long and slender, set in a narrow and shallow cavity. The calyx is small and closed, set in a shallow, irregular crown.
characteristics: Red fleshed with stains next to the skin, usually penetrating about halfway to the core, sometimes with lighter pinks stains at the core. Sweet-tart, mild. More exceptional in appearance than in flavours.
uses: Dessert apple, also used for culinary purposes and cider. Around the turn of the millennium, it underwent a sudden flush of popularity when it was declared by Britain's Royal Pharmaceutical Society as the healthiest apple of them all.
origins: Said to have originated during the 1100s, perhaps even King Arthur's time five centuries earlier, in what is now Devon and Cornwall's Great West Peninsula as well as neighbouring Wales. There is no record of its parentage.
cultivation: Weakly vigorous. Upright, weeping. Spur-bearer. Tolerates marine climate, poor soil. The bark and leaves, as well as the flowers, have a characteristic dark-red colour to them.
cold storage: Does not store well.
vulnerabilities: Seems to be resistant to most apple problems.
harvest: In the fifth period
pollination group: F
pollination peak: 21
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
harvest period: 5
flowers: red, single
hardiness: 3
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