Applevariety
Northern Greening
Also known as Cowarn Queening +15
Cowarn Queening · Cowarne Queening · Cowarne Quoining · Cowarne Seedling · Cowarne's Queening · Gruener Englischer Pepping · Gruner Englischer Pepping · John · John Apple · Kirk Langley Pippin · Langley Pippin · Old Northern Greening · Verte du Nord · Walmar Court · Walmer Court · Woodcock
A cooking apple with white flesh and green skin, ellipsoid in shape, first recorded in 1826; tart, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Size
- mediumWidth 65.00 mmHeight 65.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Northern Greening’s family
28 varieties · 27 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Northern Greening
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
- Culinary
- shape
- Ellipsoid
- width
- 65.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 65.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- firm-very firm
- synonyms
- Cowarn Queening, Cowarne Queening, Cowarne Quoining, Cowarne Seedling, Cowarne's Queening, Gruener Englischer Pepping, Gruner Englischer Pepping, John, John Apple, Kirk Langley Pippin, Langley Pippin, Old Northern Greening, Verte du Nord, Walmar Court, Walmer Court, Woodcock
- father to
- Encore
- mother to
- Dumelow's Seedling Chad's Favourite Merton Prolific Lamb's Seedling
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.