Applevariety
Improved Cockpit
Also known as Cockpit Improved
Cockpit Improved
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape, first recorded in 1902; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid, a little sweet, insipid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange and pale red mottlingBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- whitish
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 64-76 mmFruit height 51-70 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern sometimes a little russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, a little sweet, insipid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Cockpit Improved
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 64-76 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange and pale red mottling
- russet type
- sometimes a little russet
- flesh colour
- whitish
- fruit height
- 51-70 mm
- flesh texture
- fairly soft, coarse
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.