Applevariety
Easter Orange
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, first recorded in 1897; sweet, aromatic, crisp and firm. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 66.00 mmHeight 63.00 mm
- Appearance
- very lowSurface ridges medium
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 66.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 63.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.