Lady's Delight
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in England. It was first described in 1851. Fruits have crisp flesh with a sweet, subacid, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- drooping
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 76 mm
- Over colour
- flushed red, streaked red at base
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 57 mm
- Flesh texture
- tender, crisp
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow speckled dark green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 95.93 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 71.96 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong-very strong
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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