Tewkesbury Baron
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to have originated in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Recorded in 1883. Fruits have a little coarse, dry, white flesh with an insipid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Gloucestershire Orchard Trust collection (link to website)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 52.00mm 2
- Width
- 69.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- absent 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Coarseness
- medium-coarse 2
- Juiciness
- dry 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1944 - 005
- Accession name
- Tewkesbury Baron
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering 15th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Late August 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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