Applevariety
Lady Hopetown
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occassional brownish red flushSkin texture greasyBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- pale cream
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 70 mmFruit height 57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 70 mm
- over colour
- occassional brownish red flush
- flesh colour
- pale cream
- fruit height
- 57 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, fine, crisp
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.