Applevariety
Discovery
Also known as Thurston August
Thurston August
A medium-to-large dessert apple with yellowish-white flesh (tinged pink) and pale-greenish-yellow skin, raised in about 1949; sweet, mildly tart, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-August.
Origin · Essex
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed bright redBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white, tinged pink
- Shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 60-77 mmFruit height 45-61 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye, very evenRusset pattern light dots, fine scattered russet, solid russet at base
Origin & family
Where Discovery began
Recorded origin
Essex
Discovery’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Discovery
Essex
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Discovery
3004
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye, very even
- synonyms
- Thurston August
- mother to
- Limelight
- parentage
- Worcester Pearmain x Beauty of Bath
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 60-77 mm
- over colour
- flushed bright red
- russet type
- light dots, fine scattered russet, solid russet at base
- flesh colour
- yellowish white, tinged pink
- fruit height
- 45-61 mm
- flesh texture
- crisp
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.