Peter Lock
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Discovered in the early 1800s. It was found in Dean Woods, Buckfastleigh, Devon by Peter Lock. Fruits have soft, coarse flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 6th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 72.50 mm
- Height
- 55.50 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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