Applevariety
Gooseberry
Also known as Golding +2
Golding · Gooseberry Apple · Gooseberry Pippin
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, broad round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1831; tart, mildly tart, juicy and astringent. Picked in late October.
Origin · England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour tinged brownBackground colour deep green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- variable, intermediate to flat or tall, rectangular to truncateconic or conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 76 mmFruit height 70 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body, prominently at eyeRusset pattern dotted
Origin & family
Where Gooseberry began
Recorded origin
England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body, prominently at eye
- synonyms
- Golding, Gooseberry Apple, Gooseberry Pippin
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- variable, intermediate to flat or tall, rectangular to truncateconic or conic, convex
- fruit width
- 76 mm
- over colour
- tinged brown
- russet type
- dotted
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 70 mm
- flesh texture
- very tender
- ground colour
- deep green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.