Applevariety
Ballyfatten
Also known as Bally Fatten
Bally Fatten
A cooking apple, broad round conical in shape, whitish-yellow skin, white flesh. Picked in late-September. First recorded in 1802. Acid and firm.
Origin · Northern Ireland
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed red-brown, blotched pinkRusset Russet presentBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- tall, rectangular to conic, straight
- Size
- mediumFruit width 70 mmFruit height 65 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed
Origin & family
Where Ballyfatten began
Recorded origin
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- tip bearer
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed
- synonyms
- Bally Fatten
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular to conic, straight
- fruit width
- 70 mm
- over colour
- flushed red-brown, blotched pink
- russet type
- present
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 65 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.