Applevariety
Canvada
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occasional pinkish flushBackground colour yellow to greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, straight to convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 59-78 mmFruit height 57-76 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet dots and netting
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, straight to convex
- fruit width
- 59-78 mm
- over colour
- occasional pinkish flush
- russet type
- russet dots and netting
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 57-76 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, tender, somewhat coarse
- ground colour
- yellow to greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.