Catshead
Also known as Apfelmuser +52
Apfelmuser · Cat-Head · Cat-head Greening · Cat's Head · Cat's Head Apple · Cathead · Cathead Greening · Catshead Greening · Catshead Round · Coustard · Crede's Grosser Wilhelm's Apfel · de Seigneur d'Automne · Deutsche SchaPsnase · Duke of York · Engelskopf · Green Codlin · Green Costard · Green Leadington · Grenadier · Gros-Nez de Mouton · Grosse gestreifte Schafsnase · Grosse Schafnase · Grosse Schafsnase · Grosse-Schafnas · Grosse-Schafnase · Grosser Schafsnase · Herefordshire Goose · Herrenapfel · Katzenkopf · Leadington · Leadington Green · Leadington Monstrous · Leichter Mat Apfel · Loggerhead · Monstrous · Monstrous Leadington · Pigs Snout · Pomme de Seigneur d'Automne · Rosskopf · Round Catshead · Royal Costard · Schafnase · Schafsnase · Stock Leadington · Stoke Leadington · Tankard · Terwin's Goliath · Tete d'Ange · Tete de Chat · Tete de Chat Ronde · Tete de Seigneur · Tete du Chat · Tete du Chat (of Jersey)
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and dry. Picked in early October.
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Origin · England
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Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed faint brownSkin texture greasyBackground colour pale yellowish green
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic, convex to straight
- Size
- largeFruit width 82 mmFruit height 82-88 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, prominent ribs on body
Origin & family
Where Catshead began
Recorded origin
England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, prominent ribs on body
- synonyms
- Apfelmuser, Cat-Head, Cat-head Greening, Cat's Head, Cat's Head Apple, Cathead, Cathead Greening, Catshead Greening, Catshead Round, Coustard, Crede's Grosser Wilhelm's Apfel, de Seigneur d'Automne, Deutsche SchaPsnase, Duke of York, Engelskopf, Green Codlin, Green Costard, Green Leadington, Grenadier, Gros-Nez de Mouton, Grosse gestreifte Schafsnase, Grosse Schafnase, Grosse Schafsnase, Grosse-Schafnas, Grosse-Schafnase, Grosser Schafsnase, Herefordshire Goose, Herrenapfel, Katzenkopf, Leadington, Leadington Green, Leadington Monstrous, Leichter Mat Apfel, Loggerhead, Monstrous, Monstrous Leadington, Pigs Snout, Pomme de Seigneur d'Automne, Rosskopf, Round Catshead, Royal Costard, Schafnase, Schafsnase, Stock Leadington, Stoke Leadington, Tankard, Terwin's Goliath, Tete d'Ange, Tete de Chat, Tete de Chat Ronde, Tete de Seigneur, Tete du Chat, Tete du Chat (of Jersey)
- mother to
- Peasgood's Nonsuch Lord Derby Lord Derby Spur Type
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic, convex to straight
- fruit width
- 82 mm
- over colour
- flushed faint brown
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 82-88 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- tender
- ground colour
- pale yellowish green