Applevariety
Green Roland
A medium cooking and dessert apple with green-yellow skin, oblong-conical in shape; tart. Picked in late September.
Origin · Norfolk
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Texture
- hard
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped purplish redSkin texture white bloomBackground colour bright green
- Shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbed
Origin & family
Where Green Roland began
Recorded origin
Norfolk
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly acid
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- over colour
- flushed and striped purplish red
- skin texture
- white bloom
- flesh texture
- hard
- ground colour
- bright green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.