Lord Derby Spur Type
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated at the Hilltop Fruit Farm, Ledbury, Herefordshire on trees planted in 1968. Trees are of a spur type habit. Fruits are rather coarse-textured, somewhat dry and with a subacid flavour. Cooks well.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 16th May (full) · 25th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose
- Russet
- absent
- Ribbing
- strong
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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