Applevariety
Old Fred
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Eynsham, Oxford
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Whitish yellow
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 63.00 mmHeight 44.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Old Fred began
Recorded origin
Eynsham, Oxford
Old Fred’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Old Fred
Eynsham, Oxford
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
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 63.00 mm
- height
- 44.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Allington Pippin x Court Pendu Plat
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- 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.