Applevariety
Longstart
Also known as Long Start +5
Long Start · Longstarths · Westmoreland Long Start · Westmoreland Longstalk · Westmoreland Longstart · Westmoreland Longstreet
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and green skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart. Picked in late August.
Origin · Westmorland, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange-red, carmine streaksSkin texture sticky, thinBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- white, browns quickly
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, occasionally flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 69-82 mmFruit height 56-71 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges broad ribs at eye and usually on bodyRusset pattern brown scaly russet extending from cavity, dots & markings on body
Origin & family
Where Longstart began
Recorded origin
Westmorland, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- broad ribs at eye and usually on body
- synonyms
- Long Start, Longstarths, Westmoreland Long Start, Westmoreland Longstalk, Westmoreland Longstart, Westmoreland Longstreet
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, occasionally flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 69-82 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange-red, carmine streaks
- russet type
- brown scaly russet extending from cavity, dots & markings on body
- flesh colour
- white, browns quickly
- fruit height
- 56-71 mm
- skin texture
- sticky, thin
- flesh texture
- tender
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.