Applevariety
King George V
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in about 1898; mildly tart, aromatic, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Bembridge, Isle of Wight, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 67.00 mmHeight 50.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where King George V began
Recorded origin
Bembridge, Isle of Wight, England
United Kingdom
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 67.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 50.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- 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.