Applevariety
Channel Beauty
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart, firm and bitter. Picked in early October.
Origin · Swansea, Wales
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Flavour
- bitter
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 62.00 mmHeight 50.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Channel Beauty began
Recorded origin
Swansea, Wales
United Kingdom
Channel Beauty’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Channel Beauty
Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → Channel BeautyParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 62.00 mm
- height
- 50.00 mm
- russet
- low
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.