Applevariety
Mary Barnett
A cooking and dessert apple with greenish flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in about 1920; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 69.00 mmHeight 60.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Mary Barnett began
Recorded origin
Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, England
United Kingdom
Mary Barnett’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Mary Barnett
Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Lane's Prince Albert → Mary BarnettParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 69.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 60.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- parentage
- Lane's Prince Albert x Unknown
- 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.