Applevariety
Fairie Queen
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1937; sweet, mildly tart and aromatic. Picked in early September.
Origin · Ware Park Gardens, Hertfordshire
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Yellow
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 67.00 mmHeight 54.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Fairie Queen began
Recorded origin
Ware Park Gardens, Hertfordshire
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 67.00 mm
- height
- 54.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.