Applevariety
Cornish Honeypin
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet and soft. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour a few pink streaksBackground colour deep yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white, tinged yellow
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 54-63 mmFruit height 44-55 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 54-63 mm
- over colour
- a few pink streaks
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- creamy white, tinged yellow
- fruit height
- 44-55 mm
- flesh texture
- soft, fine
- ground colour
- deep yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.