Applevariety
Newton Wonder
A cooking apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, introduced in about 1887; tart, mildly tart, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · King's Newton, Melbourne, Derbyshire, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour scarlet flush and stripesBackground colour bright yellow
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 82 mmFruit height 63 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye
Origin & family
Where Newton Wonder began
Recorded origin
King's Newton, Melbourne, Derbyshire, England
United Kingdom
Newton Wonder’s family
9 varieties · 10 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Newton Wonder
King's Newton, Melbourne, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- sports
- Crimson Newton Marston Scarlet Wonder Red Newton Wonder
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- father to
- Howgate Wonder
- parentage
- Dumelow's Seedling x Blenheim Orange
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 82 mm
- over colour
- scarlet flush and stripes
- flesh colour
- yellow
- fruit height
- 63 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- bright yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.