Applevariety
Lady Sudeley
Also known as Jacob's Strawberry +1
Jacob's Strawberry · Lady Sudely
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in about 1849 and introduced in 1885; tart, juicy and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Petworth, Sussex
Released 1885
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 67.00 mmHeight 54.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strong
Origin & family
Where Lady Sudeley began
Recorded origin
Petworth, Sussex
- Released
- 1885
Lady Sudeley’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Lady Sudeley
Petworth, Sussex
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 67.00 mm
- height
- 54.00 mm
- sports
- Red Sudeley
- ribbing
- strong
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Jacob's Strawberry, Lady Sudely
- father to
- Benenden Early
- mother to
- Beauty of Bedford
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.