Applevariety
Edith Hopwood
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, conical in shape; mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Essex
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- medium-firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour Yellow
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 64.00 mmHeight 54.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Edith Hopwood began
Recorded origin
Essex
Edith Hopwood’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Edith Hopwood
Essex
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → Edith HopwoodParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Conical
- width
- 64.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 54.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- medium-firm
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- coarseness
- coarse
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.