Applevariety
Measday's Favourite
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart and crisp. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes flushed pale redBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, truncate-conic, straight
- Size
- largeFruit width 76 mmFruit height 76 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs base to apexRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- prominent ribs base to apex
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, truncate-conic, straight
- fruit width
- 76 mm
- over colour
- sometimes flushed pale red
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 76 mm
- flesh texture
- fairly crisp, tender
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.