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Sussex Mother
type: Eating
identification: Medium size, conic to oblong conic and angular on the sides with a ribbed crown. The skin is green with russet and pearly lenticels and usually blushed brownish red on the sun exposed face. The eye is medium size and closed, set in a shallow and wide, puckered basin, sometimes surrounded by a slightly knobbed crown. The stem is long and slender, set in a narrow, russeted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, soft and tender, sweet, slightly tart and spicy with a slight aniseed flavour.
uses: Eating apple.
origins: Sussex UK 1884
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs.
cold storage: Does not store well.
harvest: In the early in the third period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Self sterile. Group D. Day 12.
harvest period: 3
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