Applevariety
Mobbs Royal
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, flat-round in shape; tart and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange to pinkish red, some fruits with no flushBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- very white, tinged green
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 82 mmFruit height 66 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body and at eyeRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 82 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange to pinkish red, some fruits with no flush
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- very white, tinged green
- fruit height
- 66 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.