Applevariety
Lappio
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occasional pinkish flush, clouded appearanceSkin texture stickyBackground colour green or yellowish green
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, occasionally flat, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 57-73 mmFruit height 49-61 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, prominent ribs on body, sometimes base to apex
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, prominent ribs on body, sometimes base to apex
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, occasionally flat, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 57-73 mm
- over colour
- occasional pinkish flush, clouded appearance
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 49-61 mm
- skin texture
- sticky
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- green or yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.