Applevariety
Nobil de Geoagiu
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong-conical in shape; tart and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed dull purplish redSkin texture greasyBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- whitish
- Shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 58 mmFruit height 59 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body, prominently at eye
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body, prominently at eye
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 58 mm
- over colour
- flushed dull purplish red
- flesh colour
- whitish
- fruit height
- 59 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- soft, fine
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.