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Lady Hopetown
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1950 - 086
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1950 from W. Barnes, Bexhill, Sussex. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
- Accession name
- Lady Hopetown
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium-strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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