Applevariety
Freyberg
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1934; sweet, aromatic, juicy and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Greytown, Wairarapa, New Zealand
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage very low
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 50.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Freyberg began
Recorded origin
Greytown, Wairarapa
New Zealand
Freyberg’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Freyberg
Greytown, Wairarapa, New Zealand
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
- Flat
- width
- 60.00 mm
- height
- 50.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Golden Delicious x Cox's Orange Pippin
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- very low
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.