Applevariety
Giambun
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, oval-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped bright dark redSkin texture slightly greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- whitish
- Shape
- tall, rectangular, straight
- Size
- largeFruit width 74 mmFruit height 83 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, straight
- fruit width
- 74 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped bright dark red
- flesh colour
- whitish
- fruit height
- 83 mm
- skin texture
- slightly greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.