Lord Peckover
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
Accession No.
1926 - 040
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1926 from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Fruits have firm, crisp, white flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Lord Peckover
- Flowering time ›››
- 27th April10% flowering
1st MayFull (80%) flowering 8th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid August 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- solid flush 1
- Russet
- very 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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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