Applevariety
Dillington Beauty
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour striped and flushed red, pink dots at baseBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 81 mmFruit height 70 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at apex and on bodyRusset pattern some russet patches and dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at apex and on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 81 mm
- over colour
- striped and flushed red, pink dots at base
- russet type
- some russet patches and dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 70 mm
- flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.