Fruit Tree Database

Fruit Type

Apple

Variety/Cultivar

Lord Lambourne

Fruit Description

Fruit is round, medium sized, with an orange/red stripe over a green background, and slight russeting. Flesh is crisp with excellent flavour - this apple won two Royal Horticultural Society awards in the early 1920s.

Common Uses

Origin

Berkshire, England, early 1900s.

Pollination

Diploid, partially self-fertile. Pollinated by other diploids that flower at the same time, e.g. Abas, Irish Peach, McIntosh, Red Braeburn or Vista Bella, or some of the earlier mid-season flowering cultivars, e.g. Fuji, Gala, Pink Lady, Sundowner.

Chill Hours

Blossom Time

Flowers early to mid-season.

Harvest Time

Mid-season

Production Notes

Tree is very spreading. almost to the point of being weeping. Partial tip-bearer.

Disease Susceptibility

Very resistant to black spot (apple scab)

Images

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