Winter Peach
syn. Peach Bloom, Peche d'Hiver
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in the U.S.A. Known in England in 1853. Fruits have crisp, tender, yellowish flesh with an acid and slightly spicy flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid, slightly spicy
- Ribbing
- ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Over colour
- sometimes flushed pink
- Flesh colour
- yellowish
- Flesh texture
- crisp, tender
- Ground colour
- pale creamy yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 77.58 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 57.75 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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