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Hunt's Duke of Gloucester
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Fruit height
- 40.0 mm
- Fruit width
- 47.5 mm
source: NFC
source: NFC
Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.
A high-quality dessert apple from Gloucestershire, England, developed around 1820. Picked in mid-September and at its best for eating from December through February.
Best Uses
fresh_eating
Lineage
Parents
Offspring
Origin & History
- Origin type
- chance seedling
- Known by
- ≥ 1820
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 2859
- Wikidata
- Q41778139
- MUNQ ID
- 1971