Lord Derby
syn. Derby, London Major, London Mayor
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Witham, Stockport, Cheshire. It was first recorded in 1862. Fruits are rather coarse textured, somewhat dry with a subacid flavour. Cooks well.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 23rd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 88 mm
- Flesh colour
- pale yellow
- Fruit height
- 82 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- green changing to yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 78.05 mm
- Height
- 66.83 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- soft-medium
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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