Applevariety
Mead's Broading
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- largeWidth 76.00 mmHeight 63.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Mead's Broading began
Recorded origin
England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 76.00 mm
- height
- 63.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- 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.