Applevariety
Kaiser Franz Joseph
Also known as Francis Joseph +2
Francis Joseph · Francois Joseph · Kaiseren Elizabeth
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, aromatic and wine-like. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Flavour
- vinous
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour BrownBackground colour Whitish green
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 69.00 mmHeight 52.00 mm
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 69.00 mm
- height
- 52.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- synonyms
- Francis Joseph, Francois Joseph, Kaiseren Elizabeth
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.