Applevariety
Folkestone
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in late August.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost entirely flushed deep bright redSkin texture smooth, waxy, thin, tenderBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white, sometimes tinged red under skin
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- small to mediumFruit width 51-61 mmFruit height 38-48 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet dots, russet in cavity, sometimes on base
Origin & family
Folkestone’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Folkestone
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Tydeman's Early Worcester → FolkestoneParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid
- ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- parentage
- Tydeman's Early Worcester x Unknown
- fruit size
- small to medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 51-61 mm
- over colour
- almost entirely flushed deep bright red
- russet type
- russet dots, russet in cavity, sometimes on base
- flesh colour
- creamy white, sometimes tinged red under skin
- fruit height
- 38-48 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, waxy, thin, tender
- flesh texture
- crisp, tender
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.