Applevariety
Excel
A large apple with yellow flesh and yellow skin; mildly tart and rich.
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Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- subacid, rich
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour marbled and flushed redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- Russet pattern some netted and patched russet
Origin & family
Excel’s family
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This variety
Excel
Jonagold → ExcelParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, rich
- parentage
- Sport of Jonagold
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic
- over colour
- marbled and flushed red
- russet type
- some netted and patched russet
- flesh colour
- yellow
- flesh texture
- tender
- ground colour
- yellow