Applevariety
Francis (Thorrington)
Also known as Francis
Francis
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, aromatic, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Essex
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour Dark RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 55.50 mmHeight 48.50 mm
- Appearance
- very lowSurface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Francis (Thorrington) began
Recorded origin
Essex
Francis (Thorrington)’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Francis (Thorrington)
Essex
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → Francis (Thorrington)Parent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 55.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 48.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Francis
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Dark Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- 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.