Charles Eyre
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Charles Ross at Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire. Introduced by Pope Brothers of Wokingham in about 1911. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1911. Fruits are soft, coarse-textured, rather dry and acid.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 60-90 mm
- Over colour
- sometimes red flushed
- Russet type
- streaked with white or pale fawn russet
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 64-79 mm
- Skin texture
- smooth, thin, tender, slightly greasy
- Flesh texture
- soft
- Ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 103.83 mm
- Height
- 91.18 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- striped/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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