Rivers' Early Peach
syn. Early Peach, Rivers' Peach
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. Introduced in 1893. Fruits have coarse, rather dry, white flesh with a sweet, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 27th April (10%) · 4th May (full) · 10th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Ribbing
- medium
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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