Discovery
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in about 1949 by Mr Drummer, a workman on an Essex fruit farm. It was first named 'Thurston August' but renamed Discovery in 1962 and introduced by nurseryman J. Matthews, Thurston, Suffolk. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a fairly sweet and pleasant flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Thurston August
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Parentage:
- Worcester Pearmain x Beauty of Bath
- Mother to:
- Limelight
Accession No.
1973 - 189
- Accession name
- Discovery (EMLA 1)
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering 19th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid August 1


Accession No.
1982 - 272
- Accession name
- Discovery (original tree No. 1)

Accession No.
1982 - 301
- Accession name
- Discovery (original tree no.2)
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Height
- 45.38 mm 1
- Width
- 63.00 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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