Applevariety
Maidstone Favourite
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, juicy, firm and soft. Picked in mid-August.
Origin · Maidstone, Kent
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 54.00 mmHeight 48.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Maidstone Favourite began
Recorded origin
Maidstone, Kent
Maidstone Favourite’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Maidstone Favourite
Maidstone, Kent
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Alexander → Maidstone FavouriteParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 54.00 mm
- height
- 48.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Alexander x Beauty of Bath
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.