Gloucester Royal
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1930 at Dursley, Gloucestershire, by J.W. Thornhill. It was introduced in 1956 by Matthews Fruit Trees Ltd., Thurston, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Fruits have coarse flesh with a sweet and insipid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 11th May (10%) · 16th May (full) · 23rd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 70.00 mm
- Height
- 56.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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