Applevariety
Joseph Musch
Also known as Iosif Mush +1
Iosif Mush · Musch
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and dry. Picked in early October.
Origin · Belgium
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- rather coarse, dry
- Flavour
- subacid, sweet
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour bright red flush and stripesBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- whitish yellow
- Shape
- variable, intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet at base
Origin & family
Where Joseph Musch began
Recorded origin
Belgium
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Iosif Mush, Musch
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- variable, intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- over colour
- bright red flush and stripes
- russet type
- russet at base
- flesh colour
- whitish yellow
- flesh texture
- rather coarse, dry
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.