Search Options
Copyright Information
You may use and re-use the information featured on this website (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence.
Prince Charles
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised between 1940 and 1945 at Victoria Nurseries, Burbage, Leicester, England by Herbert Robinson. Fruits have firm, creamy white flesh with a sweet, slightly subacid, slightly aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Lord Lambourne x Cox's Orange Pippin
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 54.50mm 2
- Width
- 64.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1959 - 044
- Accession name
- Prince Charles
- Flowering time ›››
- 29th April10% flowering
5th MayFull (80%) flowering
12th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early September 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, November 2015