Applevariety
Brown Crofton
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
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Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- somewhat acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour dark brownish flush and stripesSkin texture roughBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57 mmFruit height 46 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed on bodyRusset pattern network of coarse russet overall
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- tip bearer
- flavour
- somewhat acid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 57 mm
- over colour
- dark brownish flush and stripes
- russet type
- network of coarse russet overall
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 46 mm
- skin texture
- rough
- flesh texture
- crisp
- ground colour
- greenish yellow