Lake's Kernel
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Brought to Ashleworth, Gloucestershire, England by Mr Lake. It was first exhibited in 1905. Fruits have firm flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Ashleworth, Prince's Pippin, Princess Pippin
- 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)
Accession No.
1950 - 027
- Accession name
- Lake's Kernel
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
17th MayFull (80%) flowering 24th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- small 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
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