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Lord Derby Spur Type
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated at the Hilltop Fruit Farm, Ledbury, Herefordshire on trees planted in 1968. Trees are of a spur type habit. Fruits are rather coarse-textured, somewhat dry and with a subacid flavour. Cooks well.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Catshead x Unknown
Accession No.
1969 - 041
- Accession name
- Lord Derby spur type
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering
25th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Green 1
- Over Colour
- Brown 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- absent 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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