Applevariety
Gloucester Cross
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1913; mildly tart, aromatic, soft and rich. Picked in early September.
Origin · Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- small-medium
Origin & family
Where Gloucester Cross began
Recorded origin
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Gloucester Cross’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Gloucester Cross
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → Gloucester CrossParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- small-medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.