Applevariety
Lord Peckover
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-August.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost overlaid deep redSkin texture heavy white bloomBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat, sometimes intermediate, conic to truncate-conic, convex, sometimes asymmetric
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 66-75 mmFruit height 54-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body and at eye, often base to apexRusset pattern russet dots, heavy russet in cavity and on base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye, often base to apex
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat, sometimes intermediate, conic to truncate-conic, convex, sometimes asymmetric
- fruit width
- 66-75 mm
- over colour
- almost overlaid deep red
- russet type
- russet dots, heavy russet in cavity and on base
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 54-64 mm
- skin texture
- heavy white bloom
- flesh texture
- firm, fine, crisp
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.