Applevariety
Clopton Red
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1946 and introduced in 1961; sweet, firm and rich. Picked in late September.
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Origin · Clopton Hall, Wickhambrook, Suffolk
Released 1961
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Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Clopton Red began
Recorded origin
Clopton Hall, Wickhambrook, Suffolk
- Released
- 1961
Clopton Red’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Clopton Red
Clopton Hall, Wickhambrook, Suffolk
Cox's Orange Pippin → Clopton RedParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, rich
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- over colour
- flushed red
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellow