Applevariety
Hibbs Seedling
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 79.50 mmHeight 61.50 mm
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 79.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 61.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- medium
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.