Applevariety
Finasso
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-green skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped bright carmineSkin texture rather toughBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- smallFruit width 42-48 mmFruit height 31-36 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet at base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- fruit size
- small
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 42-48 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped bright carmine
- russet type
- russet at base
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 31-36 mm
- skin texture
- rather tough
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- pale yellow
- flowering time
- late
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.