Applevariety
Fortosh
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape; soft. Picked in mid-October.
Released 1926
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 58.00 mmHeight 54.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Fortosh began
- Released
- 1926
Fortosh’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Fortosh
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 58.00 mm
- height
- 54.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- McIntosh x Forest
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- 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.