Applevariety
Nasona
Also known as Jusfet de Sezar +1
Jusfet de Sezar · Pom de Sezar
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed dull orange-red, streaked redSkin texture thick, tough, slightly greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, concave
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 65-77 mmFruit height 75-81 mm
- Appearance
- Russet pattern russet on base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- synonyms
- Jusfet de Sezar, Pom de Sezar
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, concave
- fruit width
- 65-77 mm
- over colour
- flushed dull orange-red, streaked red
- russet type
- russet on base
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 75-81 mm
- skin texture
- thick, tough, slightly greasy
- flesh texture
- fine, crisp
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.