Tewkesbury Baron
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Recorded in 1883. Fruits have a little coarse, dry, white flesh with an insipid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 69.00 mm
- Height
- 52.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- medium-coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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