Applevariety
Crimson Queening
Also known as Crimson Quoining +6
Crimson Quoining · Herefordshire Queening · Quining · Red Queening · Scarlet Queening · Summer Queening · Summer Quoining
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1831; mildly tart and soft. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped redBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white, tinged green
- Shape
- tall, conic, straight to concave
- Size
- mediumFruit width 64 mmFruit height 70 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, prominent ribs on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, prominent ribs on body
- synonyms
- Crimson Quoining, Herefordshire Queening, Quining, Red Queening, Scarlet Queening, Summer Queening, Summer Quoining
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, conic, straight to concave
- fruit width
- 64 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped red
- flesh colour
- white, tinged green
- fruit height
- 70 mm
- flesh texture
- tender
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.