Applevariety
Meri Cretesti
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange, streaked pinkSkin texture greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 54-62 mmFruit height 42-48 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges sometimes slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern occasional russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 54-62 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange, streaked pink
- russet type
- occasional russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 42-48 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- somewhat soft and coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.