Applevariety
Lord Derby
Also known as Derby +2
Derby · London Major · London Mayor
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1862; mildly tart, firm and dry. Picked in late September.
Origin · Stockport, Cheshire
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour green changing to yellow
- Flesh
- pale yellow
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 88 mmFruit height 82 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body and at eye
Origin & family
Where Lord Derby began
Recorded origin
Stockport, Cheshire
Lord Derby’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Lord Derby
Stockport, Cheshire
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- synonyms
- Derby, London Major, London Mayor
- father to
- Eynsham Challenger
- parentage
- Catshead x Unknown
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 88 mm
- flesh colour
- pale yellow
- fruit height
- 82 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- green changing to yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.