Applevariety
Golden Knob
Also known as Golden Nobb +3
Golden Nobb · Kentish Golden Knob · Old Lady · Old Maid
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, nutty and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Enmore Castle, Somerset
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain very fine
- Flavour
- nutty
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage low
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- smallWidth 42.00 mmHeight 35.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Golden Knob began
Recorded origin
Enmore Castle, Somerset
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- small
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 42.00 mm
- height
- 35.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Golden Nobb, Kentish Golden Knob, Old Lady, Old Maid
- coarseness
- very fine
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- low
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.