Irish Peach

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Dessert

Origin

Kilkenny, Ireland

Measured Phenotype

Brix: 16.6 °Bx
Fruit height: 47.5 mm
Fruit width: 57.0 mm

Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.

Irish Peach is a medium-sized summer dessert apple, ripening in early August with pale yellowish-green skin tinged with dull reddish-brown on the shaded side and fine lively red mottled with yellow on the sun-exposed side. The flesh is greenish-white, tender, and crisp with a rich, brisk, vinous, and aromatic juice. It is considered one of the finest and most excellent summer apples, best eaten fresh from a hardy, vigorous, and abundant-bearing tree.

Flavor & Texture

sweettendercrispjuicy

Best Uses

cookingfresh_eating

1 historical watercolor from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection (1886–1942) included in the gallery above. Public domain.

Lineage

Offspring

Balder Rivers' Early Peach Canvada

Origin & History

Status: commercial
Origin type: open pollinated seedling
Known by: ≥ 1800

richbriskvinousaromatic

Disease Resistance

Apple scab: susceptible
Leaf spot: susceptible

Cornell Apple Variety Database.

References

USDA-NPGS: PI 104727
UK National Fruit Collection: 2939
Wikidata: Q41778231
MUNQ ID: 2093
Cited authority (Hogg 1851): Hort