Applevariety
Lady of the Wemyss
Also known as Lady of the Wemys +1
Lady of the Wemys · Lady Wemyss
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; tart. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Scotland
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Texture
- hard, fine
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed dull orange red to reddish mauveBackground colour pale green or yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish yellow
- Shape
- intermediate sometimes flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to sometimes straight
- Size
- largeFruit width 83-97 mmFruit height 65-89 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body, sometimes to baseRusset pattern russet dots and flecks, russet on base
Origin & family
Where Lady of the Wemyss began
Recorded origin
Scotland
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body, sometimes to base
- synonyms
- Lady of the Wemys, Lady Wemyss
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate sometimes flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to sometimes straight
- fruit width
- 83-97 mm
- over colour
- flushed dull orange red to reddish mauve
- russet type
- russet dots and flecks, russet on base
- flesh colour
- greenish yellow
- fruit height
- 65-89 mm
- flesh texture
- hard, fine
- ground colour
- pale green or yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.