Applevariety
Hereford Cross
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1913; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late August.
Origin · Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 64.00 mmHeight 45.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Hereford Cross began
Recorded origin
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Hereford Cross’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Hereford Cross
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → Hereford CrossParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 64.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 45.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.