Applevariety
Chaxhill Red
A dessert / cider apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, round in shape; mildly tart. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Chaxhill, Westbury-on-Severn
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- miId subacid
- Used for
- Dessert / Cider apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost entirely flushed deep crimson, streaked deeper redBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- cream
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 62-69 mmFruit height 53-59 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern some russet
Origin & family
Where Chaxhill Red began
Recorded origin
Chaxhill, Westbury-on-Severn
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- miId subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 62-69 mm
- over colour
- almost entirely flushed deep crimson, streaked deeper red
- russet type
- some russet
- flesh colour
- cream
- fruit height
- 53-59 mm
- flesh texture
- tender
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.