Applevariety
Moti
Also known as Moate +1
Moate · Motate
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- very firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed redBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish or yellowish
- Shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 54-78 mmFruit height 42-63 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, sometimes ribbed on bodyRusset pattern dotted
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, sometimes ribbed on body
- synonyms
- Moate, Motate
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 54-78 mm
- over colour
- flushed red
- russet type
- dotted
- flesh colour
- greenish or yellowish
- fruit height
- 42-63 mm
- flesh texture
- very firm
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.