Applevariety
Houblon
Also known as The Houblon
The Houblon
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, oblong-conical in shape, first recorded in 1901; tart, aromatic, juicy and crisp. Picked in late September.
Origin · Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 70.00 mmHeight 64.00 mm
- Appearance
- very lowSurface ridges medium
Origin & family
Where Houblon began
Recorded origin
Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire, England
United Kingdom
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong conical
- width
- 70.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 64.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- synonyms
- The Houblon
- mother to
- Peacemaker
- parentage
- Peasgood's Nonsuch x Cox's Orange Pippin
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.