Applevariety
Orange Goff
Also known as Ackland Vale +6
Ackland Vale · Goff · Kentish Orange Goff · Park Apple · Pork Apple · Top · Top Apple
A cooking and dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, round in shape; tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped redBackground colour yellow tinged green
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 76 mmFruit height 63 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbedRusset pattern a little russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- synonyms
- Ackland Vale, Goff, Kentish Orange Goff, Park Apple, Pork Apple, Top, Top Apple
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 76 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped red
- russet type
- a little russet
- flesh colour
- yellow
- fruit height
- 63 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- yellow tinged green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.