Applevariety
George Cave
A dessert apple with green-yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1923 and named in 1945; tart, aromatic, juicy and soft. Picked in early August.
Origin · Dovercourt, Essex
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 55.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where George Cave began
Recorded origin
Dovercourt, Essex
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 60.00 mm
- height
- 55.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.