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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