Applevariety
Fall Russet
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and rich. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, slightly rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed gold or orangeBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- creamy yellow
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57-63 mmFruit height 50-53 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes slightly ribbedRusset pattern some solid and patchy russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid, slightly rich
- ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 57-63 mm
- over colour
- flushed gold or orange
- russet type
- some solid and patchy russet
- flesh colour
- creamy yellow
- fruit height
- 50-53 mm
- flesh texture
- crisp
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.