Applevariety

Histon Favourite

Also known as Chiver's Seedling +2

Chiver's Seedling · Chivers' Seedling · Histon Favorite

A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1883; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and juicy. Picked in late September.

Origin · Histon, Cambridgeshire, England

Taste & texture

Sweetness
sweet
Acidity
subacid
Scent
aromatic
Firmness
soft
Juiciness
juicy
Flavour
subacid, slightly aromatic
Used for
Culinary / Dessert apple

How to spot it

Skin
Surface colour slight red flush and stripesBackground colour yellow
Flesh
cream
Shape
intermediate to tall, truncate-conic, sometimes rectangular, convex
Size
mediumFruit width 55-65 mmFruit height 49-57 mm
Appearance
Surface ridges not, or slightly ribbed

Origin & family

Where Histon Favourite began

Recorded origin

Histon, Cambridgeshire, England

United Kingdom

Field notes

Original source notes
Fruit & tree
flavour
subacid, slightly aromatic
ribbing
not, or slightly ribbed
synonyms
Chiver's Seedling, Chivers' Seedling, Histon Favorite
fruit size
medium
fruit shape
intermediate to tall, truncate-conic, sometimes rectangular, convex
fruit width
55-65 mm
over colour
slight red flush and stripes
flesh colour
cream
fruit height
49-57 mm
flesh texture
soft
ground colour
yellow
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