Applevariety
Decio
Also known as Deci +2
Deci · Decio nostrano · Dezi
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes slight orange flush and red streaksSkin texture smooth, thin, toughBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- small to mediumFruit width 50-63 mmFruit height 42-57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet at base and apex, netting on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Deci, Decio nostrano, Dezi
- fruit size
- small to medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 50-63 mm
- over colour
- sometimes slight orange flush and red streaks
- russet type
- russet at base and apex, netting on body
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 42-57 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, thin, tough
- flesh texture
- firm, 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.