Applevariety
Lemon Queen
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes a slight brownish or orange flush, scaly russet on baseSkin texture slightly greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- flat, conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 80-84 mmFruit height 57-66 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern many russet dots and occassional traces
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 80-84 mm
- over colour
- sometimes a slight brownish or orange flush, scaly russet on base
- russet type
- many russet dots and occassional traces
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 57-66 mm
- skin texture
- slightly greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.