Applevariety
Glass Apple
Also known as Snell's White
Snell's White
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, tart and crisp. Picked in late August.
Origin · Tamar Valley, Cornwall
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain medium-coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumBackground colour Yellow
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 73.00 mmHeight 65.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Glass Apple began
Recorded origin
Tamar Valley, Cornwall
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 73.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 65.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- synonyms
- Snell's White
- coarseness
- medium-coarse
- greasiness
- Medium
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.