Applevariety
Kilkenny Pearmain
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet and dry. Picked in late September.
Origin · Ireland
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Juiciness
- dry
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.50 mmHeight 51.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Kilkenny Pearmain began
Recorded origin
Ireland
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 60.50 mm
- height
- 51.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- juiciness
- dry
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.