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Lewis's Incomparable
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Believed to have been raised in England. It was known at the end of the 1700s. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, rather dry, subacid flesh with very little flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Incomparable, Incomparable de Lewis, Lewis Incomparable, Lewis' Incomparable
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
2000 - 060
- Accession name
- Lewis's Incomparable
- Flowering time ›››
- 12th May10% flowering
18th MayFull (80%) flowering
26th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 75.68 mm 1
- Width
- 86.96 mm 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium-strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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