Applevariety
Hounslow Wonder
A cooking apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 68.50 mmHeight 54.00 mm
Origin & family
Hounslow Wonder’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Hounslow Wonder
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Dumelow's Seedling → Hounslow WonderParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 68.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 54.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Dumelow's Seedling x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.