Applevariety
Alice
A dessert apple, flat round in shape, yellow skin, white flesh. Picked in late-August. Raised in 1943; introduced in 1962. Juicy and crisp.
Origin · Balsgard Fruit Breeding Institute, Sweden
Released 1962
Taste & texture
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Yellow
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Alice began
Recorded origin
Balsgard Fruit Breeding Institute
Sweden
- Released
- 1962
Alice’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Alice
Balsgard Fruit Breeding Institute, Sweden
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Ingrid Marie → AliceParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- crunch
- crisp
- parentage
- Ingrid Marie x Unknown
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.