Applevariety
Barnack Beauty
Also known as Barnack +3
Barnack · Barnacké jablko · Beckford Beauty · Piekna z Barnaku
A dessert apple, round conical in shape, yellow skin, white flesh. Picked in early-October. Introduced around 1870. Sweet, mildly tart, juicy and crisp.
Origin · Barnack, Northamptonshire
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour half orange-red flush and stripesBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, apex broader than base, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 63 mmFruit height 70 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye
Origin & family
Where Barnack Beauty began
Recorded origin
Barnack, Northamptonshire
Barnack Beauty’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Barnack Beauty
Barnack, Northamptonshire
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Barnack, Barnacké jablko, Beckford Beauty, Piekna z Barnaku
- father to
- Jennifer Wastie
- mother to
- Barnack Orange
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, apex broader than base, convex
- fruit width
- 63 mm
- over colour
- half orange-red flush and stripes
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 70 mm
- 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.