Applevariety
Karinable
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-August.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid to subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed dull pinkish and red stripesBackground colour whitish green
- Flesh
- greenish white to white
- Shape
- flat, conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 64 mmFruit height 51 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at apex and on bodyRusset pattern dotted and streaked with russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid to subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at apex and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64 mm
- over colour
- flushed dull pinkish and red stripes
- russet type
- dotted and streaked with russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white to white
- fruit height
- 51 mm
- flesh texture
- coarse, firm, mealy
- ground colour
- whitish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.