Applevariety
Craciunesti
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late September.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes faintly tinged orangeSkin texture smoothBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular (base narrower than apex), convex, swelling at stalk
- Size
- small to mediumFruit width 48-62 mmFruit height 44-53 mm
- Appearance
- Russet pattern densely dotted, russet over base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- fruit size
- small to medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular (base narrower than apex), convex, swelling at stalk
- fruit width
- 48-62 mm
- over colour
- sometimes faintly tinged orange
- russet type
- densely dotted, russet over base
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 44-53 mm
- skin texture
- smooth
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.