Applevariety
Murasaki
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape, raised in 1935; mildly tart, aromatic, crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pale orange red, streaked darker redBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57-63 mmFruit height 51-57 mm
Origin & family
Where Murasaki began
Recorded origin
Aomori Apple Experiment Station
Japan
Murasaki’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Murasaki
Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- parentage
- Jonathan x Delicious
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- fruit width
- 57-63 mm
- over colour
- flushed pale orange red, streaked darker red
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 51-57 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.