Lord Peckover
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received 1926. Origin: Received from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 27th April (10%) · 1st May (full) · 8th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye, often base to apex
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- flat, sometimes intermediate, conic to truncate-conic, convex, sometimes asymmetric
- Fruit width
- 66-75 mm
- Over colour
- almost overlaid deep red
- Russet type
- russet dots, heavy russet in cavity and on base
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 54-64 mm
- Skin texture
- heavy white bloom
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine, crisp
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very high
- Over colour pattern
- solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
View on the NFC site