Applevariety
John Divers
A cooking apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1905; tart and firm. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 76.00 mmHeight 58.50 mm
Origin & family
John Divers’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
John Divers
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
- Flat
- width
- 76.00 mm
- height
- 58.50 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Jenkinson's Seedling x Baumann's Reinette
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- 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.