Applevariety
Contessa
A cooking apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, round in shape; tart and firm. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slight orange flush, carmine streaksBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- variable, intermediate, sometimes flat or tall, truncate-conic, convex, sometimes asymmetric
- Size
- medium to large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern occassional russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- variable, intermediate, sometimes flat or tall, truncate-conic, convex, sometimes asymmetric
- over colour
- slight orange flush, carmine streaks
- russet type
- occassional russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- flesh texture
- firm, coarse
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.