Applevariety
Gibbon's Russet
Also known as Gibson's Russet
Gibson's Russet
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, aromatic and firm. Picked in late August.
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Origin · Cork, Ireland
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Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Flavour
- sweet, slightly aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slight orange or pink flushBackground colour yellowish white
- Flesh
- very white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57 mmFruit height 45 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbedRusset pattern russet dots and veins, rough russet round eye
Origin & family
Where Gibbon's Russet began
Recorded origin
Cork
Ireland
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, slightly aromatic
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- synonyms
- Gibson's Russet
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 57 mm
- over colour
- slight orange or pink flush
- russet type
- russet dots and veins, rough russet round eye
- flesh colour
- very white
- fruit height
- 45 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, tender, fine
- ground colour
- yellowish white