Applevariety
Akero
Also known as Aakero +11
Aakero · Akera · Akero galsaplple · Akero-apple · AkeroaebleAkeroapfel · Akeroaple · Akeroglasaplen · Apfel von Akero · Okera · Okere · Schmidt's Junkerapfel · Schmidts Junkerapfel
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and firm. Picked in late August.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellow
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium-large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Aakero, Akera, Akero galsaplple, Akero-apple, AkeroaebleAkeroapfel, Akeroaple, Akeroglasaplen, Apfel von Akero, Okera, Okere, Schmidt's Junkerapfel, Schmidts Junkerapfel
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.