Applevariety
Elton Beauty
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart, aromatic and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Ince Orchards, Chester
Released 1952
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange red, streaked redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 57-72 mmFruit height 51-60 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not, or slightly ribbedRusset pattern rough russet around cavity
Origin & family
Where Elton Beauty began
Recorded origin
Ince Orchards, Chester
- Released
- 1952
Elton Beauty’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Elton Beauty
Ince Orchards, Chester
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- not, or slightly ribbed
- parentage
- James Grieve x Worcester Pearmain
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic
- fruit width
- 57-72 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange red, streaked red
- russet type
- rough russet around cavity
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 51-60 mm
- flesh texture
- rather soft, fine
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.