Duchess's Favourite
Also known as Duchess Favourite +14
Duchess Favourite · Duchess of Gloester · Duchess of Glosester · Duchess of Gloster · Duchess of Gloucester · Duchess of York · Duchess of York Favourite · Duchess of York's Favorite · Duchess of York's Favourite · Duchess' Favorite · Duchess' Favourite · Dutches's Favorite · Fordham Wonder · Scarlet Incomparable · Town Apple
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in about 1800; crisp and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Addlestone, Surrey
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 64.00 mmHeight 54.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Duchess's Favourite began
Recorded origin
Addlestone, Surrey
Duchess's Favourite’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
Duchess's Favourite
Addlestone, Surrey
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Duchess's Favourite → JenniferParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 64.00 mm
- height
- 54.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm-very firm
- synonyms
- Duchess Favourite, Duchess of Gloester, Duchess of Glosester, Duchess of Gloster, Duchess of Gloucester, Duchess of York, Duchess of York Favourite, Duchess of York's Favorite, Duchess of York's Favourite, Duchess' Favorite, Duchess' Favourite, Dutches's Favorite, Fordham Wonder, Scarlet Incomparable, Town Apple
- mother to
- Jennifer
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.