Irish Peach
Also known as Early apple +17
Early apple · Early Crofton · Irischer Pfirschapfel · Irischer Pfirschenapfel · Irischer Pfirsich Apfel · Irischer Pfirsichapfel · Irish Peach Apple · Irlandi scher Pfirsich · Irlandischer Pfirsich Apfel · Irlandskoe persikovoe · Irlandskt Persikapple · Irlandskt Persikeapple · Irlandsktpersikapple · Irsk Ferskenacble · Peach Apple · Peche d'Irelande · Peche d'Irlande · Persikeapple
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin streaked orange, broad round-conical in shape; aromatic, juicy and firm. Picked in early August.
Origin · Ireland
Released 1820
Taste & texture
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain very fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.00 mmHeight 47.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Irish Peach began
Recorded origin
Ireland
- Released
- 1820
Irish Peach’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
Irish Peach
Ireland
Irish Peach → BalderParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 57.00 mm
- height
- 47.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Early apple, Early Crofton, Irischer Pfirschapfel, Irischer Pfirschenapfel, Irischer Pfirsich Apfel, Irischer Pfirsichapfel, Irish Peach Apple, Irlandi scher Pfirsich, Irlandischer Pfirsich Apfel, Irlandskoe persikovoe, Irlandskt Persikapple, Irlandskt Persikeapple, Irlandsktpersikapple, Irsk Ferskenacble, Peach Apple, Peche d'Irelande, Peche d'Irlande, Persikeapple
- father to
- Balder
- coarseness
- very fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.