Applevariety
George Carpenter
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1902; sweet, aromatic, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · West Hall Gardens, Byfleet, Surrey
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 70.00 mmHeight 64.00 mm
- Appearance
- very lowSurface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where George Carpenter began
Recorded origin
West Hall Gardens, Byfleet, Surrey
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 70.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 64.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Blenheim Orange x King of the Pippins
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.