Applevariety

Katja

Also known as Katy

Katy

A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, raised in 1947 and introduced in 1966; sweet, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in early September.

Origin · Balsgard Fruit Breeding Institute, Sweden

Released 1966

Taste & texture

Sweetness
sweet
Firmness
firm
Bite
crisp
Juiciness
juicy
Flavour
sweet
Used for
Dessert apple

How to spot it

Skin
Surface colour flushed scarletBackground colour yellow
Shape
conic, convex, regular
Size
medium

Origin & family

Where Katja began

Recorded origin

Balsgard Fruit Breeding Institute

Sweden

Released
1966

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Field notes

Original source notes
Fruit & tree
flavour
sweet
synonyms
Katy
parentage
James Grieve x Worcester Pearmain
fruit size
medium
fruit shape
conic, convex, regular
over colour
flushed scarlet
flesh texture
firm
ground colour
yellow
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