Applevariety
Chad's Favourite
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, named in 1952; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and soft. Picked in early October.
Origin · John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, London
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 68.50 mmHeight 59.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Chad's Favourite began
Recorded origin
John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, London
Chad's Favourite’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Chad's Favourite
John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, London
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 68.50 mm
- height
- 59.50 mm
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Northern Greening x Cox's Orange Pippin
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- 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.