Applevariety
French Crab
Also known as Amiens Long Keeper +25
Amiens Long Keeper · Amiens Longkeeper · Claremont · Claremont Pippin · Easter Pippin · Green Beefing · Gruner Oster · Gruner Oster Apfel · Iron King · Iron Stone Apple · Ironside · Ironsides · Ironstone · Ironstone Pippin · John Apple · Robin · Somerset Stone Pippin · Three Years Old · Tunbridge Pippin · Two Years Apple · Winter Greening · Winter Queening · Yorkshire Robin · Young's Long Keeper · Young's Long Keeping · Young's Long-Keeping
A cooking apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; tart, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- very firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 70.00 mmHeight 64.00 mm
Origin & family
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 70.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 64.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- very firm
- synonyms
- Amiens Long Keeper, Amiens Longkeeper, Claremont, Claremont Pippin, Easter Pippin, Green Beefing, Gruner Oster, Gruner Oster Apfel, Iron King, Iron Stone Apple, Ironside, Ironsides, Ironstone, Ironstone Pippin, John Apple, Robin, Somerset Stone Pippin, Three Years Old, Tunbridge Pippin, Two Years Apple, Winter Greening, Winter Queening, Yorkshire Robin, Young's Long Keeper, Young's Long Keeping, Young's Long-Keeping
- mother to
- Granny Smith
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.