Applevariety
Egremont Russet
Also known as Egremont
Egremont
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1872; sweet, aromatic, nutty and firm. Picked in late September.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, aromatic, distinctive
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed golden brownBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- cream, tinged green
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 63 mmFruit height 51 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not, or slightly ribbedRusset pattern nearly covered with russet
Origin & family
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, aromatic, distinctive
- ribbing
- not, or slightly ribbed
- synonyms
- Egremont
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 63 mm
- over colour
- flushed golden brown
- russet type
- nearly covered with russet
- flesh colour
- cream, tinged green
- fruit height
- 51 mm
- flesh texture
- compact, firm
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.