Applevariety
Mrs. Phillimore
Also known as Miss Phillimore
Miss Phillimore
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, first recorded in 1896; sweet and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 62.50 mmHeight 47.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges medium-strong
Origin & family
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 62.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 47.50 mm
- ribbing
- medium-strong
- synonyms
- Miss Phillimore
- parentage
- Cox's Pomona x Mother
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.