Applevariety
Amber
A dessert apple with yellowish-white flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape; firm.
Origin · Chelmsford, Essex
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slight orange flushSkin texture slightly rough, fairly tenderBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular to conic, convex
- Size
- small
- Appearance
- Russet pattern some russet
Origin & family
Where Amber began
Recorded origin
Chelmsford, Essex
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- fruit size
- small
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to conic, convex
- over colour
- slight orange flush
- russet type
- some russet
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- skin texture
- slightly rough, fairly tender
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.