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Supreme Crab
type: Cider, Dessert
synonyms: Grange Apple, Knight's New Golden Pippin
identification: Small, round to round conic. the base colour is greenish yellow maturing to orange marked with abundant dark lenticels.
characteristics: The flesh is firm, crisp. Sweet, juicy and aromatic
uses: Dessert apple, Cider apple ÔAn excellent dessert apple of great beauty. It was also used as a cider apple but lacks tannin; sharp.
origins: It was grown by Mr. Thomas Andrew Knight at his Wormsley Grange, Herefordshire nursery in 1792. It is the offspring of the Orange Pippin, and the produce of a blossom which was deprived of its stamens, and subsequently fertiliz by the pollen from the Golden Pippin.
cold storage: Tends to become mealy soon after harvest.
ploidism: Self sterile.
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