Applevariety
Imperiale
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape; firm. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.50 mmHeight 45.00 mm
Origin & family
Imperiale’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Imperiale
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
York Imperial → ImperialeParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 57.50 mm
- height
- 45.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- York Imperial x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- 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.