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Peter Lock
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Discovered in the early 1800s. It was found in Dean Woods, Buckfastleigh, Devon by Peter Lock. Fruits have soft, coarse flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 55.50mm 2
- Width
- 72.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- very low 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1924 - 052
- Accession name
- Peter Lock
- Flowering time ›››
- 1st May10% flowering
6th MayFull (80%) flowering
14th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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