Applevariety
Cretesc de Breaza
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occasional faint orange flush with red streaksSkin texture thin, rather toughBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- tall, rectangular, convex or almost straight
- Size
- small to mediumFruit width 50-56 mmFruit height 48-56 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern solid and netted russet at eye, sometimes on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- fruit size
- small to medium
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, convex or almost straight
- fruit width
- 50-56 mm
- over colour
- occasional faint orange flush with red streaks
- russet type
- solid and netted russet at eye, sometimes on body
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 48-56 mm
- skin texture
- thin, rather tough
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp, fine
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.