Thorpe's Peach
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1899 by Miss Goodwin at the nurseries of E.J. Thorpe, Brackley, Northamptonshire. Introduced in 1927. Fruits have firm, moderately crisp, fine, white flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 70.00 mm
- Crunch
- medium
- Height
- 51.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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