Applevariety
Horsford Prolific
Also known as Queen Anne
Queen Anne
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Horsford, Norwich
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange-redSkin texture greasyBackground colour yellow
- Shape
- flat, rectangular
- Size
- largeFruit width 79 mmFruit height 64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbedRusset pattern dotted
Origin & family
Where Horsford Prolific began
Recorded origin
Horsford, Norwich
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed
- synonyms
- Queen Anne
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular
- fruit width
- 79 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange-red
- russet type
- dotted
- fruit height
- 64 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.