Applevariety
Charles Eyre
A cooking apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, round in shape; tart, mildly tart, dry and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes red flushedSkin texture smooth, thin, tender, slightly greasyBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 60-90 mmFruit height 64-79 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, slightly on bodyRusset pattern streaked with white or pale fawn russet
Origin & family
Where Charles Eyre began
Recorded origin
Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 60-90 mm
- over colour
- sometimes red flushed
- russet type
- streaked with white or pale fawn russet
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 64-79 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, thin, tender, slightly greasy
- flesh texture
- soft
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.