Applevariety
Longney Russet
A dessert apple with greenish flesh, broad round-conical in shape; firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Gloucestershire
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Juiciness
- dry
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour Dark Red
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 70.00 mmHeight 60.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Longney Russet began
Recorded origin
Gloucestershire
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 70.00 mm
- height
- 60.50 mm
- russet
- very high
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm-very firm
- juiciness
- dry
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Dark Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.