Applevariety
King of Tompkins County
Also known as Flat Spitzenburg +17
Flat Spitzenburg · King · King Apple · King Apple of America · King Jankins County · King of Thompson's County · King of Tomkins County · King of Tompkins Co. · King's Apple · Roi du Tompkins · Tom's Red · Toma Red · Tomkin's County King · Tommy Red · Tompkins County King · Tompkins King · Tompkins' King · Winter King
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, aromatic, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Yellow
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- large
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- crunch
- crisp
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- synonyms
- Flat Spitzenburg, King, King Apple, King Apple of America, King Jankins County, King of Thompson's County, King of Tomkins County, King of Tompkins Co., King's Apple, Roi du Tompkins, Tom's Red, Toma Red, Tomkin's County King, Tommy Red, Tompkins County King, Tompkins King, Tompkins' King, Winter King
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.