Applevariety
Flame
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1925; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Boreham, Essex
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 67.00 mmHeight 56.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Flame began
Recorded origin
Boreham, Essex
Flame’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Flame
Boreham, Essex
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Worcester Pearmain → FlameParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 67.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 56.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- parentage
- Worcester Pearmain x Rival
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.