Applevariety
Geeveston Fanny
A dessert apple with whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical,-crunch-crisp in shape; mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in late September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour three-quarters flushed pale red with darker stripesBackground colour pale lemon and light green
- Shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57 mmFruit height 49 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbedRusset pattern dark dots
Origin & family
Geeveston Fanny’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Geeveston Fanny
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Geeveston Fanny → Red Geeveston FannyParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- sports
- Red Geeveston Fanny
- flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 57 mm
- over colour
- three-quarters flushed pale red with darker stripes
- russet type
- dark dots
- fruit height
- 49 mm
- flesh texture
- crisp
- ground colour
- pale lemon and light green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.