Applevariety
Pearl
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1933 and introduced in 1938; sweet, tart, aromatic and juicy. Picked in late September.
Origin · Boreham, Essex
Released 1938
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 63.00 mmHeight 63.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Pearl began
Recorded origin
Boreham, Essex
- Released
- 1938
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 63.00 mm
- height
- 63.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Worcester Pearmain x Rival
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.