Discovery
syn. Thurston August
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 3 accessions
Raised in about 1949 by Mr Drummer, a workman on an Essex fruit farm. It was first named 'Thurston August' but renamed Discovery in 1962 and introduced by nurseryman J. Matthews, Thurston, Suffolk. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a fairly sweet and pleasant flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession 1973-189 · Discovery (EMLA 1)
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye, very even
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 60-77 mm
- Over colour
- flushed bright red
- Russet type
- light dots, fine scattered russet, solid russet at base
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white, tinged pink
- Fruit height
- 45-61 mm
- Flesh texture
- crisp
- Ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Accession 1982-272 · Discovery (original tree No. 1)
No descriptor data recorded for this accession.
Accession 1982-301 · Discovery (original tree no.2)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 63.00 mm
- Height
- 45.38 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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