Applevariety
Magdalene
Also known as Magdalen +1
Magdalen · Saint Magdalene
A dessert apple with green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, introduced in 1924; sweet, tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Magdalen, Norfolk
Released 1924
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellow
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Magdalene began
Recorded origin
Magdalen, Norfolk
- Released
- 1924
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- synonyms
- Magdalen, Saint Magdalene
- over colour
- Red
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.