Applevariety
Newport Cross
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1920; firm and dry. Picked in early September.
Origin · Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 66.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Newport Cross began
Recorded origin
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Newport Cross’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Newport Cross
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 66.00 mm
- height
- 51.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- firmness
- firm
- juiciness
- dry
- parentage
- Devonshire Quarrenden x Cox's Orange Pippin
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.