Applevariety
Montfort
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in about 1928; mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Woodford Green, Essex
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 69.00 mmHeight 57.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Montfort began
Recorded origin
Woodford Green, Essex
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 69.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 57.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.