Applevariety
Celt
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1943; sweet and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Melksham, Wiltshire
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 47.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Celt began
Recorded origin
Melksham, Wiltshire
Celt’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Celt
Melksham, Wiltshire
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 60.00 mm
- height
- 47.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Blenheim Orange
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.