Applevariety
Delectable
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, introduced in 1952; sweet, wine-like, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Berkshire
Released 1952
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- vinous
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 66.50 mmHeight 52.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Delectable began
Recorded origin
Berkshire
- Released
- 1952
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 66.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 52.50 mm
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.