Applevariety
Henry Clay
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; tart and soft. Picked in early August.
Origin · USA
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pinkish orangeSkin texture greasyBackground colour green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, often assymetric
- Size
- mediumFruit width 63-69 mmFruit height 51-58 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet dots and occasional patches
Origin & family
Where Henry Clay began
Recorded origin
USA
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, often assymetric
- fruit width
- 63-69 mm
- over colour
- flushed pinkish orange
- russet type
- russet dots and occasional patches
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 51-58 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- soft
- ground colour
- green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.