Applevariety
Hibernal
Also known as Orsimoi +3
Orsimoi · Orsimui · Osimoe · Romna
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape; tart, firm and astringent. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid, astringent
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange-red with crimson splashesBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 65-75 mmFruit height 50-61 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet in cavity and on base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid, astringent
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Orsimoi, Orsimui, Osimoe, Romna
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 65-75 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange-red with crimson splashes
- russet type
- russet in cavity and on base
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 50-61 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.