Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Sleeping Beauty
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in Lincolnshire. Described in 1851. Fruits have crisp, tender, yellowish white flesh with an acid flavour.
Sources
- Sleeping Beauty (accession 1947 - 485), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october); the other names.
