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Neild's Drooper
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A weeping tree budded at Woburn 1915-16, the grafts having been taken from a tree planted at Woburn in 1894 labelled Calville Blanche d'Ete but does not resemble it. Fruits have greenish white, crisp, tender, watery flesh with an acid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1957 - 241
- Accession name
- Neild's Drooper (MM106)
- Flowering time ›››
- 14th May10% flowering
19th MayFull (80%) flowering
26th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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