Applevariety
Mabbott's Pearmain
Also known as Canterbury +7
Canterbury · Mabbot's Pearmain · Mabbut's Pearmain · Parmaene von Mabbott · Parmane von Mabot · Parmane von Mabott · Pearmain de Mabbot · Pearmain de Mabbott
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape; sweet, tart, aromatic and juicy. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Kent, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange-redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- white, tinged orange
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57 mmFruit height 57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern dotted with light russet
Origin & family
Where Mabbott's Pearmain began
Recorded origin
Kent, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, aromatic
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Canterbury, Mabbot's Pearmain, Mabbut's Pearmain, Parmaene von Mabbott, Parmane von Mabot, Parmane von Mabott, Pearmain de Mabbot, Pearmain de Mabbott
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 57 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange-red
- russet type
- dotted with light russet
- flesh colour
- white, tinged orange
- fruit height
- 57 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, tender
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.