Lewis's Incomparable
syn. Incomparable, Incomparable de Lewis, Lewis Incomparable, Lewis' Incomparable
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Believed to have been raised in England. It was known at the end of the 1700s. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, rather dry, subacid flesh with very little flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 12th May (10%) · 18th May (full) · 26th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 76 mm
- Over colour
- streaked red
- Flesh colour
- yellowish
- Fruit height
- 70 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 86.96 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 75.68 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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