Crawley Beauty apple

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Primarily a culinary variety, cooks to a puree with a delicate apple flavour - but can be eaten fresh after storing. Good disease resistance and tolerates a wide range of soil types.

Last updated 24 Sep 2010.

Summary

Species: Malus domestica
Parentage: Unknown
Origin: Crawley, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Introduced: 1870
Orange Pippin Cultivar ID: 154800
Some historical details taken with kind permission from 'The New Book of Apples' by Joan Morgan and Alison Richards , illustrated by Elisabeth Dowle, published by Ebury Press, 2002.

Identification

Fruit colour: Red / Orange flush
Flesh colour: Cream
Bultitude apple group: 3. Flushed / striped, smooth, acidic, culinary

Using

Good for cooking
Cooking result: Puree
Flavour quality: Good
Flavour style: Sharper
Ripening period: Late season
Use / keeping: 1-2 months

Growing

Cropping: Heavy
Flowering period: Very-Late season
Flowering group: 5
Fertility: Self-sterile
Triploid: No
Vigour: Slightly small
Gardening skill: Very easy
Fruit bearing: Free-spurring
Frost-resistant blossom

Climate

Suitable for temperate climates
Tolerates cold winters

Disease resistance

Bacterial canker Pseudomonas syringae - Some resistance
Scab - Some resistance

Crawley Beauty identification photos from official fruit collections

UK National Fruit Collection

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Crawley Beauty identification photos from website visitors

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25 Jul 2010		N. BuckCAMBRIDGESHIRE, United Kingdom
	Fruit flavour is average, but nothing special - many other cookers will produce more flavoursome dishes, while the fruits need quite a lot of "mellowing" in storage to be satisfactory eaters (but still nothing special). Another problem with Crawley Beauty, is finding a suitable very-late-flowering pollination partner. I grow Court Pendu Plat nearby, as pollinator, but their flowering times don't always coincide perfectly, due to seasonal variation. Pollination doesn't usually seem to be a problem though. There seems to be controversy over whether Crawley Beauty is self-fertile or self-sterile. From my experiences of this variety, I'd guess that it's probably partially-self-fertile, with the huge quantities of blossom that this variety produces helping contribute towards an adequate crop in most seasons. But despite the drawbacks, Crawley Beauty has some very good points that makes it a "must-have" among my apple trees....... Crawley Beauty's main benefits are for those who want a regular crop of clean and healthy fruit, from a healthy and relatively compact tree that will grow almost anywhere without much attention. Crawley Beauty has good natural resistance to the major apple diseases, meaning that spraying is unlikely to be necessary in most locations, most seasons. It is also not particularly troubled by pest damage. In summary - easy to grow, but nothing special in terms of flavour.

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Fruit tree register

Do you have a tree of this variety in your garden or orchard? If so please register the details here and contribute to our international register of fruit trees.

The following Crawley Beauty trees have been registered - click the name to view more details of each tree.

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United Kingdom

Andrew C Ross in EASTLEIGH, Hampshire
Andrew C Ross in Eastleigh, Hampshire
Clifford Cain in DONCASTER, SOUTH YORKSHIRE
John Partis in Haywards Heath, West Sussex
N. Buck in CAMBRIDGE, Cambridgeshire
N. Buck in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
N. Buck in
Rachel in Downham Market, Norfolk
Tom Chester in SHEFFIELD,

Latest Spring blossom records for this variety

2011 season

26th April 2011 - tree owned by Rachel in Downham Market, United Kingdom

2010 season

21st May 2010 - tree owned by N. in Cambridge, United Kingdom
18th May 2010 - tree owned by N. in CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom
16th May 2010 - tree owned by Rachel in Downham Market, United Kingdom

2009 season

9th May 2009 - tree owned by N. in Cambridge, United Kingdom
4th May 2009 - tree owned by N. in CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom

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Latest harvest records for this variety

2011 season

1st week September 2011 - tree owned by Tom in SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom

2010 season

2009 season

3rd week October 2009 - tree owned by Rachel in Downham Market, United Kingdom
October 2009 - tree owned by N. in CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom

Mature heights for Crawley Beauty trees

This table shows the likely mature height for a Crawley Beauty tree taking into account the vigor of the variety, the rootstock, and soil conditions.

Rootstock	Soil quality
Rootstock	Poor	Below average	Average	Above average	Very good
P22	2.1 ft 0.6 m	2.6 ft 0.8 m	3.2 ft 1.0 m	3.7 ft 1.1 m	4.2 ft 1.3 m
M27	2.4 ft 0.7 m	3.0 ft 0.9 m	3.6 ft 1.1 m	4.2 ft 1.3 m	4.8 ft 1.5 m
M9	3.6 ft 1.1 m	4.5 ft 1.4 m	5.4 ft 1.7 m	6.3 ft 1.9 m	7.2 ft 2.2 m
Bud.9	3.6 ft 1.1 m	4.5 ft 1.4 m	5.4 ft 1.7 m	6.3 ft 1.9 m	7.2 ft 2.2 m
Geneva 16	3.6 ft 1.1 m	4.5 ft 1.4 m	5.4 ft 1.7 m	6.3 ft 1.9 m	7.2 ft 2.2 m
Geneva 11	4.2 ft 1.3 m	5.3 ft 1.6 m	6.3 ft 1.9 m	7.4 ft 2.3 m	8.4 ft 2.6 m
M26	4.5 ft 1.4 m	5.6 ft 1.7 m	6.8 ft 2.1 m	7.9 ft 2.4 m	9.0 ft 2.8 m
Geneva 30	4.8 ft 1.5 m	6.0 ft 1.8 m	7.2 ft 2.2 m	8.4 ft 2.6 m	9.6 ft 2.9 m
MM102	4.8 ft 1.5 m	6.0 ft 1.8 m	7.2 ft 2.2 m	8.4 ft 2.6 m	9.6 ft 2.9 m
M7	5.4 ft 1.7 m	6.8 ft 2.1 m	8.1 ft 2.5 m	9.5 ft 2.9 m	10.8 ft 3.3 m
M116	5.4 ft 1.7 m	6.8 ft 2.1 m	8.1 ft 2.5 m	9.5 ft 2.9 m	10.8 ft 3.3 m
MM106	6.0 ft 1.8 m	7.5 ft 2.3 m	9.0 ft 2.8 m	10.5 ft 3.2 m	12.0 ft 3.7 m
MM111	7.2 ft 2.2 m	9.0 ft 2.8 m	10.8 ft 3.3 m	12.6 ft 3.9 m	14.4 ft 4.4 m
Bud.118	7.8 ft 2.4 m	9.8 ft 3.0 m	11.7 ft 3.6 m	13.7 ft 4.2 m	15.6 ft 4.8 m
M25	9.0 ft 2.8 m	11.3 ft 3.5 m	13.5 ft 4.1 m	15.8 ft 4.8 m	18.0 ft 5.5 m

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