Applevariety
Coronation
Also known as Edward's Coronation
Edward's Coronation
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1902; sweet, aromatic and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Buxted Park, Sussex
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 71.50 mmHeight 59.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Coronation began
Recorded origin
Buxted Park, Sussex
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 71.50 mm
- height
- 59.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Edward's Coronation
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos

National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.