Applevariety
Chivers Delight
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Histon, Cambridgeshire
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 71.00 mmHeight 60.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Chivers Delight began
Recorded origin
Histon, Cambridgeshire
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 71.00 mm
- height
- 60.50 mm
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- firm
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.