Applevariety
Lady of the Lake
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slightly flushed and mottled pinkish redSkin texture stickyBackground colour greenish gold
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic or conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 51-55 mmFruit height 45-53 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, slightly on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic or conic, convex
- fruit width
- 51-55 mm
- over colour
- slightly flushed and mottled pinkish red
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 45-53 mm
- skin texture
- sticky
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- greenish gold
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.