Applevariety
Lady's Delight
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-green skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
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Origin · England
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Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- tender
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed red, streaked red at baseBackground colour greenish yellow speckled dark green
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 76 mmFruit height 57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body and at eye
Origin & family
Where Lady's Delight began
Recorded origin
England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- drooping
- flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 76 mm
- over colour
- flushed red, streaked red at base
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 57 mm
- flesh texture
- tender, crisp
- ground colour
- greenish yellow speckled dark green