Applevariety
William Peters
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Leatherhead, Surrey, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 73.50 mmHeight 62.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where William Peters began
Recorded origin
Leatherhead, Surrey, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 73.50 mm
- height
- 62.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- soft
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.