Applevariety
Green Custard
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, oval in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes faint orange flushSkin texture greasyBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- white to cream
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 72-102 mmFruit height 71-92 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet on base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 72-102 mm
- over colour
- sometimes faint orange flush
- russet type
- russet on base
- flesh colour
- white to cream
- fruit height
- 71-92 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- soft
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.