Applevariety
Norfolk Beauty
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape, introduced in 1902 and first recorded in 1901; tart, firm, dry and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Gunton Park, Norwich, England
Released 1902
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellow
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 87.00 mmHeight 72.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Norfolk Beauty began
Recorded origin
Gunton Park, Norwich, England
United Kingdom
- Released
- 1902
Norfolk Beauty’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Norfolk Beauty
Gunton Park, Norwich, 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
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 87.00 mm
- height
- 72.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Warner's King x Waltham Abbey Seedling
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.