Lake's Kernel
syn. Ashleworth, Prince's Pippin, Princess Pippin
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Brought to Ashleworth, Gloucestershire, England by Mr Lake. It was first exhibited in 1905. Fruits have firm flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 11th May (10%) · 17th May (full) · 24th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- very slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 59 mm
- Over colour
- flushed, blotched and streaked orange-red
- Russet type
- heavy grey-green russet at base
- Flesh colour
- pale cream
- Fruit height
- 48 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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