Gascoyne's Scarlet
Also known as Cramoisi de Gascoyne +17
Cramoisi de Gascoyne · Cramoisie de Gascogne · Cramoisie de Gascoigne · Friedrich August von Sachesen · Gascoigne's Scarlet · Gascoigne's Seedling · Gascoignes Scharlachapfel · Gascoine · Gascoygne's Scarlet · Gascoygne's Scarlet Seedling · Gascoygne's Seedling · Gascoynes Scarlet · Gascoynes Scarlet Seedling · Gascoynes Scharlachroter · Gascoynes Scharlachroter Samling · Malinovoe Gaskonskoe · Rhum von England · Schoner von Rusdorf
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape, introduced in 1871; sweet, mildly tart, juicy and firm. Picked in late September.
Origin · Bapchild Court, Sittingbourne, Kent
Released 1871
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid perfumed
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour nearly covered dull pink and bright scarletSkin texture bloomBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- white, sometimes tinged pink
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- large to mediumFruit width 66-83 mmFruit height 51-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body and at eyeRusset pattern dotted
Origin & family
Where Gascoyne's Scarlet began
Recorded origin
Bapchild Court, Sittingbourne, Kent
- Released
- 1871
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid perfumed
- ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- synonyms
- Cramoisi de Gascoyne, Cramoisie de Gascogne, Cramoisie de Gascoigne, Friedrich August von Sachesen, Gascoigne's Scarlet, Gascoigne's Seedling, Gascoignes Scharlachapfel, Gascoine, Gascoygne's Scarlet, Gascoygne's Scarlet Seedling, Gascoygne's Seedling, Gascoynes Scarlet, Gascoynes Scarlet Seedling, Gascoynes Scharlachroter, Gascoynes Scharlachroter Samling, Malinovoe Gaskonskoe, Rhum von England, Schoner von Rusdorf
- mother to
- Oxford Beauty Arthur W. Barnes Millicent Barnes
- fruit size
- large to medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 66-83 mm
- over colour
- nearly covered dull pink and bright scarlet
- russet type
- dotted
- flesh colour
- white, sometimes tinged pink
- fruit height
- 51-64 mm
- skin texture
- bloom
- flesh texture
- fine, firm, dry
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.