Applevariety
Thorpe's Peach
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1899 and introduced in 1927; sweet, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Brackley, Northamptonshire
Released 1927
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- medium
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 70.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Thorpe's Peach began
Recorded origin
Brackley, Northamptonshire
- Released
- 1927
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 70.00 mm
- crunch
- medium
- height
- 51.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.