Applevariety
Bascombe Mystery
Also known as Bascomb Mystery +1
Bascomb Mystery · Bascombe's Mystery
A dessert apple, broad round conical in shape, green-yellow skin, greenish flesh. Picked in mid-October. First recorded in 1831. Sweet, mildly tart and firm.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage low
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 73.00 mmHeight 61.50 mm
Origin & family
Bascombe Mystery’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Bascombe Mystery
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Newtown Pippin → Bascombe MysteryParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 73.00 mm
- height
- 61.50 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Bascomb Mystery, Bascombe's Mystery
- parentage
- Newtown Pippin x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- low
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.