Applevariety
Acklam Russet
Also known as Acklam's Russet +4
Acklam's Russet · Aclam Russet · Aclam's Russet · Aclemy Russet · Wheeler's Russet
A dessert apple with white flesh and green skin, flat in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Acklam, Yorkshire
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet to subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour pale green-yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 60 mmFruit height 50 mm
- Appearance
- Russet pattern almost entirely covered with russet
Origin & family
Where Acklam Russet began
Recorded origin
Acklam, Yorkshire
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet to subacid
- synonyms
- Acklam's Russet, Aclam Russet, Aclam's Russet, Aclemy Russet, Wheeler's Russet
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 60 mm
- russet type
- almost entirely covered with russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 50 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- pale green-yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.