Applevariety
Horei
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1931 and introduced in 1949; sweet and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Released 1949
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Whitish yellow
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 53.00 mmHeight 54.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Horei began
Recorded origin
Aomori Apple Experiment Station
Japan
- Released
- 1949
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 53.00 mm
- height
- 54.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm-very firm
- parentage
- Ralls Janet x Golden Delicious
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
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Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.