Applevariety
King Byerd
Also known as King Bayard
King Bayard
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape; crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges medium-strong
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- crunch
- crisp
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- medium-strong
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- King Bayard
- 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.