Applevariety
Norfolk Royal
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, introduced in 1928 and named in 1930; sweet, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Wright's Nurseries, North Walsham, Norfolk, England
Released 1928
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 75.00 mmHeight 65.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Norfolk Royal began
Recorded origin
Wright's Nurseries, North Walsham, Norfolk, England
United Kingdom
- Released
- 1928
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 75.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 65.00 mm
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- firm
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.