Applevariety
Devon Crimson Queen
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in late August.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost entirely covered with bright deep red flush and stripesSkin texture thin, tough, very greasyBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white, tinged red
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex, irregular
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 66-83 mmFruit height 56-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed base to apexRusset pattern pale dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed base to apex
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex, irregular
- fruit width
- 66-83 mm
- over colour
- almost entirely covered with bright deep red flush and stripes
- russet type
- pale dots
- flesh colour
- yellowish white, tinged red
- fruit height
- 56-64 mm
- skin texture
- thin, tough, very greasy
- flesh texture
- soft
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.