Applevariety
Mutsu
Also known as Crispin
Crispin
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and green skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, tart, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Japan
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Flavour
- Light sweetness with some acidity.
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 70.00 mmHeight 70.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges medium
Harvest & storage
- Harvest
- kind
- harvest
- months
- 10, 11
- region
- JP-02
- timing
- basis
- calendar
- country code
- JP
- source scope
- Aomori Prefecture
region: JP-02 · Aomori Prefecture
pref.aomori.lg.jp ↗Context & source
- /details/observations/1/value/region
- JP-02
- /details/observations/1/value/country code
- JP
- /details/observations/1/value/source scope
- Aomori Prefecture
Origin & family
Where Mutsu began
Recorded origin
Japan
Mutsu’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Mutsu
Japan
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Mutsu
4108410941104111
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Field notes
Original source notes
- weight
- 430 g · Aomori Prefecture · Aomori Prefecturepref.aomori.lg.jp ↗
- size
- largenationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- shape
- conicalnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- flesh colour
- whitenationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- texture
- firm, juicy · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- flavour notes
- Light sweetness with some acidity. · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 70.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 70.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Crispin
- parentage
- Golden Delicious x Indo
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green
Harvest calendar · Aomori Prefecture
- kind
- harvest
- months
- 10, 11
- region
- JP-02
- timing
- basis
- calendar
- country code
- JP
- source scope
- Aomori Prefecture
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.