Applevariety
John Waterer
A cooking apple with whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, introduced in 1920; mildly tart and firm. Picked in early September.
Released 1920
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- medium-firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage lowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 76.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
Origin & family
Where John Waterer began
- Released
- 1920
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 76.00 mm
- height
- 51.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- medium-firm
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Brown
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour amount
- low
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.