Applevariety
Gabiola
A cooking apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- very acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occasional buff flushSkin texture toughBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- creamy white, veined green
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 53-67 mmFruit height 43-55 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern pale dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- very acid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 53-67 mm
- over colour
- occasional buff flush
- russet type
- pale dots
- flesh colour
- creamy white, veined green
- fruit height
- 43-55 mm
- skin texture
- tough
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.