Applevariety
Monarch
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1888 and introduced in 1918; mildly tart, juicy, crisp and soft. Picked in early October.
Released 1918
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour PinkBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- largeWidth 77.50 mmHeight 62.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Monarch began
- Released
- 1918
Monarch’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Monarch
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 77.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 62.50 mm
- ribbing
- absent
- parentage
- Peasgood's Nonsuch x Dumelow's Seedling
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.