Applevariety
Nancy Jackson
A cooking apple with white flesh and green skin, round-conical in shape; tart and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour mottled and striped bright redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 88 mmFruit height 69 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body and at eyeRusset pattern russet at base, russet dots
Origin & family
Where Nancy Jackson began
Recorded origin
England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 88 mm
- over colour
- mottled and striped bright red
- russet type
- russet at base, russet dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 69 mm
- flesh texture
- coarse, soft
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.