Applevariety
Brighton
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and rich. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- fine
- Flavour
- sweet, rich, slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes pink flush or streaksSkin texture rough, thick, toughBackground colour green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall, conic, concave to convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 54-67 mmFruit height 52-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern a little netted russet, russet at cavity and basin
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, rich, slightly subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, conic, concave to convex
- fruit width
- 54-67 mm
- over colour
- sometimes pink flush or streaks
- russet type
- a little netted russet, russet at cavity and basin
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 52-64 mm
- skin texture
- rough, thick, tough
- flesh texture
- fine
- ground colour
- green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.