Applevariety
Peter Lock
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Dean Woods, Buckfastleigh, Devon
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage very lowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 72.50 mmHeight 55.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Peter Lock began
Recorded origin
Dean Woods, Buckfastleigh, Devon
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 72.50 mm
- height
- 55.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- very low
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.