Applevariety
Camelot
A cooking apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape; tart and astringent. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Somerset, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Texture
- hard
- Flavour
- very acid, astringent
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour half covered mottled scarlet flush and stripesBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 62 mmFruit height 50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body
Origin & family
Where Camelot began
Recorded origin
Somerset, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- partial tip bearer
- flavour
- very acid, astringent
- ribbing
- ribbed on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 62 mm
- over colour
- half covered mottled scarlet flush and stripes
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 50 mm
- flesh texture
- hard
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.