Applevariety
Greensleeves
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, round in shape, raised in 1966; juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · East Malling Research Station, Maidstone, Kent
Taste & texture
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
Origin & family
Where Greensleeves began
Recorded origin
East Malling Research Station, Maidstone, Kent
Greensleeves’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Greensleeves
East Malling Research Station, Maidstone, Kent
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- father to
- Limelight
- parentage
- James Grieve x Golden Delicious
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.