Applevariety

Curl Tail

Also known as Curltail +1

Curltail · Curltail Pippin

A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape, first recorded in 1872; mildly tart, dry and soft. Picked in mid-September.

Origin · Surrey, England

Taste & texture

Acidity
subacid
Firmness
soft
Texture
Flesh grain coarse
Used for
Culinary / Dessert apple

How to spot it

Skin
Background colour YellowSurface colour coverage absent
Flesh
White
Shape
Oblong
Size
largeWidth 76.00 mmHeight 69.50 mm

Origin & family

Where Curl Tail began

Recorded origin

Surrey, England

United Kingdom

Field notes

Original source notes
Fruit & tree
size
large
type
Culinary / Dessert
shape
Oblong
width
76.00 mm
height
69.50 mm
ribbing
medium
firmness
soft
synonyms
Curltail, Curltail Pippin
coarseness
coarse
over colour
n/a
flesh colour
White
ground colour
Yellow
over colour amount
absent
Sources 3

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