Applevariety
Kirke's Lord Nelson
Also known as Kirk's +4
Kirk's · Kirk's Lord Nelson · Kirke's Nelson · Lord Nelson · Lord Nelson (Kirks)
A cooking apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape; tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- largeWidth 83.00 mmHeight 70.00 mm
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 83.00 mm
- height
- 70.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Kirk's, Kirk's Lord Nelson, Kirke's Nelson, Lord Nelson, Lord Nelson (Kirks)
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.