Applevariety
Eros
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh, flat in shape, raised in 1947; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in early September.
Origin · Boreham, Essex
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour Brown
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 78.50 mmHeight 57.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Eros began
Recorded origin
Boreham, Essex
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 78.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 57.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- parentage
- Worcester Pearmain x Charles Ross
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.