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Pearl
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1933 by W. Seabrook & Sons Ltd., at Boreham, Essex. Introduced in 1938. Fruits have firm, rather coarse-textured, fairly juicy flesh with a sweet, slightly acid and pleasant aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Parentage:
- Worcester Pearmain x Rival
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 63.00mm 2
- Width
- 63.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1936 - 037
- Accession name
- Pearl
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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