Golden Noble
Also known as Blagorodnoe zheltoe +35
Blagorodnoe zheltoe · Drap d'Or · Edelapfel gelbe · Edelapfel gelber · Galben Nobil · Gelber Edel · Gelber Edel Apfel · Gelber Edelapfel · Gelber Schneibenapfel · Glassapfel · Glassreinette · Glow of the West · Golden Stanger · Golden Stranger · Gough's Seedling · Guldnobel · Ivanhoe · Jioltoe blagorodnoe · John Peel · Lady Richardson · Lord Clyde · Lord Glyde · Lord Stanwick · Mela nobile gialla · Peper's Fall · Plattapfel · Reper's Fall · Rutlandshire Foundling · Szlachetna · Terraughtie Short Meg · UslechtilT zlute · Wachsapfel · Zheltoe blagorodnoe · Zitronenapfel · Zlute spanile · Zlute uclechtile
A cooking apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, round-conical in shape; tart, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Stowe Hall, Downham, Norfolk
Released 1820
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour golden yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 70-76 mmFruit height 57-70 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eyeRusset pattern occasional russet
Origin & family
Where Golden Noble began
Recorded origin
Stowe Hall, Downham, Norfolk
- Released
- 1820
Golden Noble’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
Golden Noble
Stowe Hall, Downham, Norfolk
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Blagorodnoe zheltoe, Drap d'Or, Edelapfel gelbe, Edelapfel gelber, Galben Nobil, Gelber Edel, Gelber Edel Apfel, Gelber Edelapfel, Gelber Schneibenapfel, Glassapfel, Glassreinette, Glow of the West, Golden Stanger, Golden Stranger, Gough's Seedling, Guldnobel, Ivanhoe, Jioltoe blagorodnoe, John Peel, Lady Richardson, Lord Clyde, Lord Glyde, Lord Stanwick, Mela nobile gialla, Peper's Fall, Plattapfel, Reper's Fall, Rutlandshire Foundling, Szlachetna, Terraughtie Short Meg, UslechtilT zlute, Wachsapfel, Zheltoe blagorodnoe, Zitronenapfel, Zlute spanile, Zlute uclechtile
- father to
- Shoesmith Edward VII
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 70-76 mm
- russet type
- occasional russet
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 57-70 mm
- flesh texture
- coarse, firm, crisp
- ground colour
- golden yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.