Applevariety
Prince Charles
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Victoria Nurseries, Burbage, Leicester, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 64.50 mmHeight 54.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Prince Charles began
Recorded origin
Victoria Nurseries, Burbage, Leicester, England
United Kingdom
Prince Charles’s family
7 varieties · 6 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Prince Charles
Victoria Nurseries, Burbage, Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 64.50 mm
- height
- 54.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Lord Lambourne x Cox's Orange Pippin
- over colour
- Orange
- 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.