Applevariety
Cheddar Cross
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1916 and introduced in 1949; tart and firm. Picked in late August.
Origin · Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Released 1949
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour Green
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 50.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Cheddar Cross began
Recorded origin
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
- Released
- 1949
Cheddar Cross’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Cheddar Cross
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 60.00 mm
- height
- 50.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- parentage
- Allington Pippin x Star of Devon
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.