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Lady Williams
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated as a chance seedling in Donnybrook, Western Australia, in about 1935. Parents unknown but thought to be Granny Smith and Jonathan. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh. It rarely reaches maturity in the UK.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Granny Smith x Jonathan or Rokewood
Accession No.
1978 - 136
- Accession name
- Lady Williams
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid November 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 56.13 mm 1
- Width
- 65.25 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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