Applevariety
Great Expectations
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Ireland
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Russet Russet presentBackground colour red
- Shape
- flat
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Great Expectations began
Recorded origin
Ireland
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- parentage
- red sport of Cox x Egremont Russet
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat
- russet type
- present
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- red
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.