Applevariety
Iron Pin
A cooking apple with greenish flesh and green skin, oblong in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour BrownBackground colour Green
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 52.50 mm
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 60.00 mm
- height
- 52.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.