Applevariety
Baron Wood
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape; tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed light redSkin texture greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 64-68 mmFruit height 48-50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern some russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64-68 mm
- over colour
- flushed light red
- russet type
- some russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 48-50 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- medium firm, crisp
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.