Applevariety
George Neal
A cooking apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1904; tart, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in early August.
Origin · Otford, Kent
Released 1923
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour PinkBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 77.50 mmHeight 63.50 mm
- Appearance
- very lowSurface ridges medium
Origin & family
Where George Neal began
Recorded origin
Otford, Kent
- Released
- 1923
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 77.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 63.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- 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.