Applevariety
Lord Rosebery
Also known as Rosebery
Rosebery
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, conical in shape; sweet, crisp and soft. Picked in late August.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 68.50 mmHeight 59.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges medium-strong
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Conical
- width
- 68.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 59.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium-strong
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Rosebery
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.