Applevariety
Hormead Pearmain
Also known as American Winter Sweet Pearmain +4
American Winter Sweet Pearmain · Arundel Pearmain · Corby Seedling · Hormead Pippin · Pearmain Arundel
A cooking apple with white flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; tart, juicy, firm and soft. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft-medium
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage very low
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 73.00 mmHeight 64.00 mm
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 73.00 mm
- height
- 64.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft-medium
- synonyms
- American Winter Sweet Pearmain, Arundel Pearmain, Corby Seedling, Hormead Pippin, Pearmain Arundel
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- very low
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.