Applevariety
Arditi
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-green skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour brownish red flush and stripesSkin texture smooth, stickyBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex, often asymmetric
- Size
- mediumFruit width 65-73 mmFruit height 52-59 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern dotted
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex, often asymmetric
- fruit width
- 65-73 mm
- over colour
- brownish red flush and stripes
- russet type
- dotted
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 52-59 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, sticky
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.