Applevariety
John Standish
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; tart, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Released 1921
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
- Appearance
- very lowSurface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where John Standish began
- Released
- 1921
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 60.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 51.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- firm-very firm
- mother to
- Eden
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.