Applevariety
Amanishiki
A dessert apple, truncate conical in shape, green-yellow skin, greenish flesh. Picked in late-October. Raised in 1936; named in 1948. Sweet and firm.
Origin · Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 55.00 mmHeight 50.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Amanishiki began
Recorded origin
Aomori Apple Experiment Station
Japan
Amanishiki’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Amanishiki
Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 55.00 mm
- height
- 50.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm-very firm
- parentage
- Ralls Janet x Indo
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos

National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.