Discovery

Apple

Malus domestica Borkh.

Raised in about 1949 by Mr Drummer, a workman on an Essex fruit farm. It was first named 'Thurston August' but renamed Discovery in 1962 and introduced by nurseryman J. Matthews, Thurston, Suffolk. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a fairly sweet and pleasant flavour.

Synonyms:
Thurston August

Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)

Parentage:
Worcester Pearmain x Beauty of Bath

Mother to:
Limelight

Accession No.
1973 - 189     check_circle

Accession name
Discovery (EMLA 1)

Accession No.
1982 - 272     check_circle

Accession name
Discovery (original tree No. 1)

Accession No.
1982 - 301     check_circle

Accession name
Discovery (original tree no.2)