Applevariety
Carswell's Honeydew
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, conical in shape, raised in 1939; sweet, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Ashtead, Surrey
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Carswell's Honeydew began
Recorded origin
Ashtead, Surrey
Carswell's Honeydew’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Carswell's Honeydew
Ashtead, Surrey
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → Carswell's HoneydewParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Conical
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.