Applevariety
Edmund Jupp
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1862; sweet and mildly tart. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · near Horsham, Sussex
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes slightly tinged orangeSkin texture smooth, thin, tenderBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, conic, convex
- Size
- medium to small
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet at base, dotted
Origin & family
Where Edmund Jupp began
Recorded origin
near Horsham, Sussex
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- fruit size
- medium to small
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, conic, convex
- over colour
- sometimes slightly tinged orange
- russet type
- russet at base, dotted
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- skin texture
- smooth, thin, tender
- flesh texture
- tender
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.