King George V apple

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A variety of eating apple raised by Lady Thorneycroft in Bembridge on the Isle of Wight around 1898 as a Cox's Orange Pippin cross. It is yellow flushed blushed and striped with orangish-red. It received the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit in 1928. This late-season variety is harvested from mid-October in South-East England and is at its best from November to March.

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