Applevariety
Opalescent
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, conical in shape, introduced in 1899; sweet, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Released 1899
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness StrongSurface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- largeWidth 76.00 mmHeight 69.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Opalescent began
- Released
- 1899
Opalescent’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Opalescent
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Opalescent → ShenandoahParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Conical
- width
- 76.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 69.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- father to
- Shenandoah
- greasiness
- Strong
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.