Applevariety
Mimi
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, raised in 1935; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour striped orange and bright redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 65 mmFruit height 54 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbedRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Where Mimi began
Recorded origin
Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Netherlands
Mimi’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Mimi
Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- parentage
- Jonathan x Cox's Orange Pippin
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 65 mm
- over colour
- striped orange and bright red
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- yellow
- fruit height
- 54 mm
- flesh texture
- fine, soft
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.