Applevariety
Lass o' Gowrie
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in mid-August.
Origin · Scotland
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour PinkBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.50 mmHeight 48.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Lass o' Gowrie began
Recorded origin
Scotland
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 57.50 mm
- height
- 48.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.