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Sleeping Beauty
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in Lincolnshire. Described in 1851. Fruits have crisp, tender, yellowish white flesh with an acid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Sleeper, Winter Sleeping Beauty
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
1947 - 485
- Accession name
- Sleeping Beauty
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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