Applevariety
Eight Square
Also known as Kill Apple
Kill Apple
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late August.
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Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slight pink flushSkin texture waxyBackground colour whitish yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 49-60 mmFruit height 43-49 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern patches of thin russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly acid
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Kill Apple
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 49-60 mm
- over colour
- slight pink flush
- russet type
- patches of thin russet
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 43-49 mm
- skin texture
- waxy
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- whitish yellow