Applevariety
Excelsior
A cooking apple with greenish flesh and orange skin, truncate-conical in shape; tart and soft. Picked in late August.
Origin · Chelmsford, Essex
Released 1921
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour OrangeSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 84.00 mmHeight 76.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Excelsior began
Recorded origin
Chelmsford, Essex
- Released
- 1921
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 84.00 mm
- height
- 76.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Orange
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.