Applevariety
Durello
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, slightly perfumed
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed redBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- ivory white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 81 mmFruit height 74 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbed
Origin & family
Where Durello began
Recorded origin
Italy
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid, slightly perfumed
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 81 mm
- over colour
- flushed red
- flesh colour
- ivory white
- fruit height
- 74 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.