Applevariety
Campanino
Also known as Modenese
Modenese
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- rather acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour purplish red flush and stripesSkin texture thin, rather toughBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- green
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex, base narrower than apex
- Size
- small to mediumFruit width 42-52 mmFruit height 40-46 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes very slightly ribbedRusset pattern tracing and netting of russet at eye end
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- rather acid
- ribbing
- sometimes very slightly ribbed
- synonyms
- Modenese
- fruit size
- small to medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex, base narrower than apex
- fruit width
- 42-52 mm
- over colour
- purplish red flush and stripes
- russet type
- tracing and netting of russet at eye end
- flesh colour
- green
- fruit height
- 40-46 mm
- skin texture
- thin, rather tough
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.