Applevariety
Green Purnell
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; sweet and mildly tart. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Worcestershire
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- fine
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes dull orange-red flush faintly stripedSkin texture greasy, thin, tenderBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to conic, convex to straight
- Size
- largeFruit width 71-81 mmFruit height 58-73 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern scattered stellate dots, traces of rough russet extending from cavity
Origin & family
Where Green Purnell began
Recorded origin
Worcestershire
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to conic, convex to straight
- fruit width
- 71-81 mm
- over colour
- sometimes dull orange-red flush faintly striped
- russet type
- scattered stellate dots, traces of rough russet extending from cavity
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 58-73 mm
- skin texture
- greasy, thin, tender
- flesh texture
- fine
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.