Applevariety
Grantonian
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1883; mildly tart and soft. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Whitish yellow
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- largeWidth 85.00 mmHeight 75.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges medium-strong
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 85.00 mm
- height
- 75.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium-strong
- firmness
- soft
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.