Applevariety
Worcester Pearmain
Also known as Pearmain de Worcester +6
Pearmain de Worcester · Worcester · Worcester Parmaene · Worcester Parman · Worcester Parmane · Worcester-Parman · Worchester Parmane
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-green skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Swan Pool, near Worcester, England
Released 1874
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet, perfumed
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost entirely flushed bright red, some streaksBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 68-76 mmFruit height 45-71 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed, generally towards eyeRusset pattern numerous russet dots, russet at base
Origin & family
Where Worcester Pearmain began
Recorded origin
Swan Pool, near Worcester, England
United Kingdom
- Released
- 1874
Worcester Pearmain’s family
40 varieties · 40 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Worcester Pearmain
Swan Pool, near Worcester, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Drag to explore. Select a variety for its recorded relationships.
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, perfumed
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed, generally towards eye
- synonyms
- Pearmain de Worcester, Worcester, Worcester Parmaene, Worcester Parman, Worcester Parmane, Worcester-Parman, Worchester Parmane
- father to
- Tydeman's Early Worcester Merton Worcester Red Army Winston Laxton's Leader Pioneer (1) Tydeman's Harvest William Crump Tydeman's Michaelmas Red Lord Lambourne Opal (Seabrook) Katja Winston coloured sport Elton Beauty
- mother to
- Eros Flame Mio Hunter's Majestic Laxton's Early Crimson Ruby (Seabrook) Pearl Discovery Exeter Cross Laxton's Herald Jester
- parentage
- Devonshire Quarrenden x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 68-76 mm
- over colour
- almost entirely flushed bright red, some streaks
- russet type
- numerous russet dots, russet at base
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 45-71 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.