Applevariety
Nelson's Favourite
A cooking apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; tart and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange-red, streaked and flecked pinkish redBackground colour dull yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic to conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 64 mmFruit height 55 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic to conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange-red, streaked and flecked pinkish red
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 55 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, rather coarse
- ground colour
- dull yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.