Applevariety
Lorna Doone
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in late August.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour pale brownish red to bright red flush and streaksBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 77 mmFruit height 59 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, sometimes prominently on bodyRusset pattern russet dots and patches
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, sometimes prominently on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 77 mm
- over colour
- pale brownish red to bright red flush and streaks
- russet type
- russet dots and patches
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 59 mm
- flesh texture
- soft, mealy
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.