Applevariety
Gambafina
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour striped redBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 74 mmFruit height 58 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbedRusset pattern dotted grey
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 74 mm
- over colour
- striped red
- russet type
- dotted grey
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 58 mm
- flesh texture
- soft
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.