Applevariety
Lord Lambourne
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1907; sweet, aromatic, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Bedford, England
Released 1923
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- moderately sweet, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed red and darker red stripesBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- cream
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 63 mmFruit height 51 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbed
Origin & family
Where Lord Lambourne began
Recorded origin
Bedford, England
United Kingdom
- Released
- 1923
Lord Lambourne’s family
11 varieties · 10 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Lord Lambourne
Bedford, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Lord Lambourne
3348
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- sports
- Lady Lambourne Russet Lambourne
- flavour
- moderately sweet, aromatic
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- father to
- Birgit Bonnier
- mother to
- Prince Charles Rubin Karmen Zlatava
- parentage
- James Grieve x Worcester Pearmain
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 63 mm
- over colour
- flushed red and darker red stripes
- flesh colour
- cream
- fruit height
- 51 mm
- flesh texture
- fine, firm, crisp
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.