Applevariety
Lucullus
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1935 and introduced in 1955; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in early October.
Origin · Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Released 1955
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- largeWidth 78.00 mmHeight 64.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Lucullus began
Recorded origin
Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Netherlands
- Released
- 1955
Lucullus’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Lucullus
Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 78.00 mm
- height
- 64.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Jonathan x Cox's Orange Pippin
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.