Applevariety
Ballard Beauty
A dessert apple, broad round conical in shape, green-yellow skin, white flesh. Picked in early-October. Raised in 1946. Sweet, juicy and crisp.
Origin · Bedford
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 70.50 mmHeight 57.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Ballard Beauty began
Recorded origin
Bedford
Ballard Beauty’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Ballard Beauty
Bedford
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → Ballard BeautyParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 70.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 57.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.