Applevariety
Caroline Hopkins
A cooking apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape; tart, crisp, firm and astringent. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Worcester, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- astringent
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 62.00 mmHeight 56.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges medium-strong
Origin & family
Where Caroline Hopkins began
Recorded origin
Worcester, Cape of Good Hope
South Africa
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 62.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 56.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium-strong
- firmness
- firm
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.