Applevariety
Betty Geeson
A cooking/dessert apple, flat in shape, whitish-yellow skin, white flesh. Picked in late-September. Introduced in 1854. Sweet, mildly tart and firm.
Released 1854
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 70 mmFruit height 50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed
Origin & family
Where Betty Geeson began
- Released
- 1854
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 70 mm
- over colour
- flushed red
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 50 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, tender
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.