Applevariety
Flower of the Town
Also known as Flowery Town +2
Flowery Town · Red Streak (of Backhouse) · Redstreak (of Backhouse)
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Yorkshire, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed deep red, striped and dotted redSkin texture very greasyBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57 mmFruit height 45 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed on body
Origin & family
Where Flower of the Town began
Recorded origin
Yorkshire, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed on body
- synonyms
- Flowery Town, Red Streak (of Backhouse), Redstreak (of Backhouse)
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 57 mm
- over colour
- flushed deep red, striped and dotted red
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 45 mm
- skin texture
- very greasy
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.