Applevariety
Sergeant Peggy
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, raised in 1922; mildly tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Eynsham, Oxford, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes carmine flush and streaksSkin texture slightly roughBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate, sometimes flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 74-86 mmFruit height 61-75 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern small russet patches, sometimes russet at base
Origin & family
Where Sergeant Peggy began
Recorded origin
Eynsham, Oxford, England
United Kingdom
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- parentage
- Blenheim Orange x Gloria Mundi
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, sometimes flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 74-86 mm
- over colour
- sometimes carmine flush and streaks
- russet type
- small russet patches, sometimes russet at base
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 61-75 mm
- skin texture
- slightly rough
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.