Applevariety
Duchess of Bedford
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in mid-August.
Origin · Bedford
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness StrongSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 65.50 mmHeight 54.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Duchess of Bedford began
Recorded origin
Bedford
Duchess of Bedford’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Duchess of Bedford
Bedford
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cellini → Duchess of BedfordParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 65.50 mm
- height
- 54.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Cellini x Beauty of Bath
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Strong
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.