Applevariety
Tydeman's Early Worcester
Also known as Early Worcester +4
Early Worcester · Tydeman Early · Tydeman's Early · Tydeman's Red · Tydemans Early Worchester
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1929 and introduced in 1945; wine-like, juicy and crisp. Picked in late August.
Origin · East Malling Research Station, Kent
Released 1945
Taste & texture
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Flavour
- vinous
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.50 mmHeight 54.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Tydeman's Early Worcester began
Recorded origin
East Malling Research Station, Kent
- Released
- 1945
Tydeman's Early Worcester’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Tydeman's Early Worcester
East Malling Research Station, Kent
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
- Oblong
- width
- 60.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 54.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- synonyms
- Early Worcester, Tydeman Early, Tydeman's Early, Tydeman's Red, Tydemans Early Worchester
- mother to
- Folkestone
- parentage
- McIntosh x Worcester Pearmain
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.