Applevariety
May Queen
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, flat in shape, first recorded in 1888; crisp, firm and astringent. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Worcester, England
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- astringent
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 62.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where May Queen began
Recorded origin
Worcester, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 62.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 51.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- 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.