Applevariety
Exeter Cross
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, flat in shape, raised in 1924 and named in 1953; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and juicy. Picked in early August.
Origin · Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, moderately aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour scarlet flush and stripesBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57-64 mmFruit height 39-45 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body
Origin & family
Where Exeter Cross began
Recorded origin
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Exeter Cross’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Exeter Cross
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Worcester Pearmain → Exeter CrossParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid, moderately aromatic
- ribbing
- ribbed on body
- parentage
- Worcester Pearmain x Beauty of Bath
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 57-64 mm
- over colour
- scarlet flush and stripes
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 39-45 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.