Applevariety
Lewis's Incomparable
Also known as Incomparable +3
Incomparable · Incomparable de Lewis · Lewis Incomparable · Lewis' Incomparable
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart, crisp, firm and dry. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour streaked redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish
- Shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 76 mmFruit height 70 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Incomparable, Incomparable de Lewis, Lewis Incomparable, Lewis' Incomparable
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 76 mm
- over colour
- streaked red
- flesh colour
- yellowish
- fruit height
- 70 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.