Applevariety

Castle Major

A cooking apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in mid-September.

Origin · Kent

Taste & texture

Acidity
subacid
Firmness
soft
Used for
Culinary apple

How to spot it

Skin
Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage low
Flesh
Cream
Shape
Truncate conical
Size
largeWidth 94.00 mmHeight 83.00 mm
Appearance
Surface ridges weak-medium

Origin & family

Where Castle Major began

Recorded origin

Kent

Field notes

Original source notes
Fruit & tree
size
large
type
Culinary
shape
Truncate conical
width
94.00 mm
height
83.00 mm
ribbing
weak-medium
firmness
soft
over colour
Brown
flesh colour
Cream
ground colour
Green yellow
over colour amount
low
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