Applevariety
Hamvas alma
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweetish, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed deep orange and crimson streaksBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex to straight
- Size
- mediumFruit width 65-70 mmFruit height 51-57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body and at eyeRusset pattern some russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright
- flavour
- sweetish, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex to straight
- fruit width
- 65-70 mm
- over colour
- flushed deep orange and crimson streaks
- russet type
- some russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 51-57 mm
- flesh texture
- fairly fine, soft
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.