Applevariety
Garnet
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape; mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Boreham, Essex
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellow
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 70.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Garnet began
Recorded origin
Boreham, Essex
Garnet’s family
8 varieties · 7 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Garnet
Boreham, Essex
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
- 70.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 51.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm-very firm
- parentage
- Rival x Worcester Pearmain
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.