Hunt's Duke of Gloucester
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Dr Fry at Gloucester. It was introduced in 1820 by Thomas Hunt of Stratford-on-Avon. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a slightly subacid and nutty flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Duc de Glo'ster, Hunt's Duke of Glo'ster
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Gloucestershire Orchard Trust collection (link to website)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Parentage:
- Nonpareil x Unknown
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- small 2
- Height
- 40.00mm 2
- Width
- 47.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Russet
- very high 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine-medium 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1948 - 508
- Accession name
- Hunt's Duke of Gloucester
- Flowering time ›››
- 30th April10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering 12th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid September 1

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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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