Applevariety
Hunt's Duke of Gloucester
Also known as Duc de Glo'ster +1
Duc de Glo'ster · Hunt's Duke of Glo'ster
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green skin, broad round-conical in shape, introduced in 1820; mildly tart, nutty, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Gloucester
Released 1820
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine-medium
- Flavour
- nutty
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- smallWidth 47.50 mmHeight 40.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Hunt's Duke of Gloucester began
Recorded origin
Gloucester
- Released
- 1820
Hunt's Duke of Gloucester’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Hunt's Duke of Gloucester
Gloucester
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Nonpareil → Hunt's Duke of GloucesterParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- small
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 47.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 40.00 mm
- russet
- very high
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Duc de Glo'ster, Hunt's Duke of Glo'ster
- parentage
- Nonpareil x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine-medium
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.