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Gloucester Royal
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in about 1930 at Dursley, Gloucestershire, by J.W. Thornhill. It was introduced in 1956 by Matthews Fruit Trees Ltd., Thurston, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Fruits have coarse flesh with a sweet and insipid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Gloucestershire Orchard Trust collection (link to website)
- Parentage:
- McIntosh x Unknown
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 56.00mm 2
- Width
- 70.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1957 - 012
- Accession name
- Gloucester Royal
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering
23rd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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