Backyard apple breeding

Apple: Worcester Pearmain

Shane Gadsby -

A sweet, crisp apple that has a distinct Strawberry flavour.

  • Vigour: Medium
  • Precociousness: Low
  • Resistances: Unknown
  • Size of fruit: Medium
  • Flowering: Mid-spring
  • Fruiting: Mid-autumn
  • Cropping: Medium
  • Ploidy: Diploid
  • Fruit colour: Red
  • Flesh colour: White
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Parentage: Devonshire Quarrenden x Unknown
  • Descendants: Lord Lambourne, Discovery, and several others
  • Biennialism: None observed
  • Growth habit: Upright spreading
  • Self-fertile: Partially

A chance seedling of an open pollinated Devonshire Quarrenden in Worcester, England, and first brought to market in 1874, this apple is known for its extremely high sweetness, noticeable strawberry flavour, and crisp texture that helps the Worcester Pearmain keep for up to two months in storage.

NOTE: I have yet to try this apple directly, and so have relied on others for information related to this variety.
This entry will be updated when I graft and grow this variety myself.