Applevariety
Klunster
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes flushed brownish orangeBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 56-71 mmFruit height 43-55 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on bodyRusset pattern heavy greenish-brown russet at base, dots and netting elsewhere
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 56-71 mm
- over colour
- sometimes flushed brownish orange
- russet type
- heavy greenish-brown russet at base, dots and netting elsewhere
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 43-55 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.