Applevariety
Maldon Wonder
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in about 1900 and introduced in 1933; crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Heybridge, Essex
Released 1933
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Maldon Wonder began
Recorded origin
Heybridge, Essex
- Released
- 1933
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- crunch
- crisp
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- firm
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.