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Prince Charles
type: Dessert
identification: Medium size, round to round conic. The base colour is yellowish green washed bright red across the sun exposed surface and marked with darker red stripes. The eye is medium large and partly open set in a slightly recessed basin. The stim is short and medium thick, set in a deep and narrow russeted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, firm and crisp. Juicy, sweet and slightly tart and lightly aromatic.
uses: dessert
origins: UK Leicestershire 1940 Lord Lambourne X Cox’s Orange Pippin — Lord Lambourne x Cox s Orange Pippin, 1940—45, Herbert Robinson, Victorian Nurseries, Burbage Leicester, ENGLAND Raised between 1940 and 1945 at Victoria Nurseries, Burbage, Leicester, England by Herbert Robinson.
cultivation: Vigorous, spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs. Produces light crops ready for harvest in the first half of first period. somewhat susceptible to mildew.
cold storage: Two months.
harvest: Early in the third period.
pollination group: B
pollination peak: 5
ploidism: Self sterile. Group B. Day 5.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 3
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