Applevariety
Korei
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1935 and named in 1949; sweet, wine-like and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- vinous
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Yellow
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 66.00 mmHeight 61.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges medium-strong
Origin & family
Where Korei began
Recorded origin
Aomori Apple Experiment Station
Japan
Korei’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Korei
Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 66.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 61.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium-strong
- parentage
- Golden Delicious x Indo
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.