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Thorpe's Peach
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1899 by Miss Goodwin at the nurseries of E.J. Thorpe, Brackley, Northamptonshire. Introduced in 1927. Fruits have firm, moderately crisp, fine, white flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 70.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Greasiness
- Weak 2
- Crunch
- medium 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1928 - 011
- Accession name
- Thorpe's Peach
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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