Applevariety
Sir John Thornycroft
Also known as Sir John Thorneycroft
Sir John Thorneycroft
A dessert apple with whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape, introduced in 1913; sweet and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Bembridge, Isle of Wight
Released 1913
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- very firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Sir John Thornycroft began
Recorded origin
Bembridge, Isle of Wight
- Released
- 1913
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- very firm
- synonyms
- Sir John Thorneycroft
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Orange
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.