Applevariety
Kyokko
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1931 and named in 1948; sweet and soft. Picked in late September.
Origin · Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage medium-high
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- small-mediumWidth 57.00 mmHeight 58.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Kyokko began
Recorded origin
Aomori Apple Experiment Station
Japan
Kyokko’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Kyokko
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
- small-medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 57.00 mm
- height
- 58.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Ralls Janet x McIntosh
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- medium-high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.