Applevariety
Maren Nis
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, narrow conical in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour up to threequarters flushed pinkish orange, streaked and flecked carmineSkin texture smooth, sticky, perfumedBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall, rectangular, straight
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 56-76 mmFruit height 61-85 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body to baseRusset pattern pale russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body to base
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, straight
- fruit width
- 56-76 mm
- over colour
- up to threequarters flushed pinkish orange, streaked and flecked carmine
- russet type
- pale russet dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 61-85 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, sticky, perfumed
- flesh texture
- rather soft
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.