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Court Royal
Cider apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Origin unknown but once grown in Somerset, East Devon and Herefordshire. In the early 1900s it was used as a dessert variety. Fruits are slightly crisp and sweet. A triploid. Tree growth is vigorous producing a large tree. Produces a sweet fast fermenting juice.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
Accession No.
1989 - 075
- Accession name
- Court Royal
- Flowering time ›››
- 28th April10% flowering
30th AprilFull (80%) flowering
8th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Height
- 52.00 mm 1
- Width
- 69.70 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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