Applevariety
Box Apple
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-green skin, flat in shape; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in late August.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweet to subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slight pale orange flushSkin texture greasyBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 59-69 mmFruit height 44-52 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on bodyRusset pattern a little russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet to subacid
- ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 59-69 mm
- over colour
- slight pale orange flush
- russet type
- a little russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 44-52 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- soft
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.