Applevariety
Forty Shilling
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; soft. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness StrongSurface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 67.00 mmHeight 59.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 67.00 mm
- height
- 59.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- greasiness
- Strong
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.