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Sergeant Peggy

Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised in 1922 by F.W. Wastie at Eynsham, Oxford, England. Fruits have firm, creamy white flesh with a subacid flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Early October
Flowering
2nd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Flavour
subacid
Ribbing
ribbed at eye and on body
Fruit size
large
Fruit shape
intermediate, sometimes flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
Fruit width
74-86 mm
Over colour
sometimes carmine flush and streaks
Russet type
small russet patches, sometimes russet at base
Flesh colour
creamy white
Fruit height
61-75 mm
Skin texture
slightly rough
Flesh texture
firm
Ground colour
pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
Size
large-very large
Type
Culinary
Crown
weak-medium
Shape
Globose conical
Width
81.29 mm
Height
71.09 mm
Russet
low
Ribbing
medium
Firmness
firm
Greasiness
Weak
Over colour
Orange
Flesh colour
White
Ground colour
Whitish yellow
Over colour amount
very low
Over colour pattern
mottled/washed out

Source · National Fruit Collection

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