Applevariety
Howgate Wonder
A cooking apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1915 and introduced in 1932; sweet, aromatic, juicy and crisp. Picked in early October.
Origin · Howgate Lane, Bembridge, Isle of Wight
Released 1932
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 95.00 mmHeight 79.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Howgate Wonder began
Recorded origin
Howgate Lane, Bembridge, Isle of Wight
- Released
- 1932
Howgate Wonder’s family
5 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Howgate Wonder
Howgate Lane, Bembridge, Isle of Wight
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 95.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 79.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- parentage
- Blenheim Orange x Newton Wonder
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.