Applevariety
Kemp
Also known as May Bloom
May Bloom
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late August.
Origin · Ireland
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 89.00 mmHeight 64.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Kemp began
Recorded origin
Ireland
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 89.00 mm
- height
- 64.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- May Bloom
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.