Applevariety
Charles Ross
Also known as Ross +2
Ross · Sharl Ross · Thomas Andrew Knight
A cooking and dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet and juicy. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Welford Park Gardens, Newbury, Berkshire
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 55.00 mmHeight 45.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Charles Ross began
Recorded origin
Welford Park Gardens, Newbury, Berkshire
Charles Ross’s family
9 varieties · 8 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Charles Ross
Welford Park Gardens, Newbury, Berkshire
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Charles Ross
3341
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 55.00 mm
- height
- 45.00 mm
- sports
- Red Charles Ross
- ribbing
- medium
- synonyms
- Ross, Sharl Ross, Thomas Andrew Knight
- father to
- Eros
- mother to
- Wayside Guelph
- parentage
- Peasgood's Nonsuch x Cox's Orange Pippin
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.