Applevariety
Cigany Alma
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour dull flush, dull reddish brownBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white, tinged green
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 61-68 mmFruit height 45-54 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 61-68 mm
- over colour
- dull flush, dull reddish brown
- flesh colour
- white, tinged green
- fruit height
- 45-54 mm
- flesh texture
- crisp
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.