Applevariety
Munster Tulip
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape; tart and firm. Picked in mid-September.
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Origin · Ireland
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Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange to bright red, streaked and flecked carmineSkin texture smooth, toughBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to conic, convex, asymmetric
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 59-71 mmFruit height 48-55 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, slightly on bodyRusset pattern occasional russet
Origin & family
Where Munster Tulip began
Recorded origin
Ireland
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to conic, convex, asymmetric
- fruit width
- 59-71 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange to bright red, streaked and flecked carmine
- russet type
- occasional russet
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 48-55 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, tough
- flesh texture
- firm, tender, fine
- ground colour
- yellow