Applevariety
Gian Andre
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Flavour
- insipid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange, red streaksSkin texture smooth, rather sticky and toughBackground colour pale green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 53-65 mmFruit height 51-60 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed base to apexRusset pattern russet dots & occasional traces, rough russet in cavity & on base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- insipid
- ribbing
- ribbed base to apex
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 53-65 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange, red streaks
- russet type
- russet dots & occasional traces, rough russet in cavity & on base
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 51-60 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, rather sticky and tough
- flesh texture
- firm, fine, tender
- ground colour
- pale green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.