Applevariety
Beverly Hills
A dessert apple, flat in shape, whitish-yellow skin, white flesh. Picked in early-September. Raised in 1939; introduced in 1945. Sweet, mildly tart and soft.
Origin · University of California, USA
Released 1945
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange red, streaked dark redSkin texture smooth, thin, tender, a little stickyBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 64-75 mmFruit height 50-61 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and slightly on bodyRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Where Beverly Hills began
Recorded origin
University of California, USA
United States
- Released
- 1945
Beverly Hills’s family
5 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Beverly Hills
University of California, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and slightly on body
- parentage
- Melba x Early McIntosh
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 64-75 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange red, streaked dark red
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 50-61 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, thin, tender, a little sticky
- flesh texture
- scented, soft, tender, fine
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.