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Charles Eyre
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Charles Ross at Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire. Introduced by Pope Brothers of Wokingham in about 1911. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1911. Fruits are soft, coarse-textured, rather dry and acid.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1921 - 010
- Accession name
- Charles Eyre
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 91.18 mm 1
- Width
- 103.83 mm 1
- Ribbing
- very weak 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Pink 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019