Applevariety
Cornish Pine
Also known as Hillesdon Beauty +1
Hillesdon Beauty · Red Ribbed Greening
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in early October.
Origin · Exminster, Devon
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness StrongSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 77.00 mmHeight 69.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges medium-strong
Origin & family
Where Cornish Pine began
Recorded origin
Exminster, Devon
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Conical
- width
- 77.00 mm
- height
- 69.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- medium-strong
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Hillesdon Beauty, Red Ribbed Greening
- parentage
- Cornish Gilliflower x Unknown
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Strong
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- 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.