Applevariety
Acme
A dessert apple, broad round conical in shape, yellow skin, cream flesh. Picked in mid-September. Raised in 1944. Firm.
Origin · Boreham, Essex
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour PinkBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- largeWidth 72.00 mmHeight 62.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Acme began
Recorded origin
Boreham, Essex
Acme’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Acme
Boreham, Essex
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → AcmeParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 72.00 mm
- height
- 62.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Worcester Pearmain X Rival x Cox's Orange Pippin
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.