Applevariety
Oslin
Also known as Arbroath Oslin +20
Arbroath Oslin · Arbroath Pippin · Arbroth Pippin · Bur- Knot · Burr Knot · Burrknot · Golden Apple · Mother · Mother Apple · Orgeline · Orgiline · Orglon · Original Apple · Original Pippin · Orjeline · Oslin Apple · Oslin Pippin · Scotch Oslin · Summer Oslin · The Oslin Apple · White Oslin
A medium dessert apple with yellowish flesh and pale-yellow skin; sweet, aromatic, crisp and firm.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet, rich, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 63 mmFruit height 51 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not ribbedRusset pattern many dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, rich, aromatic
- ribbing
- not ribbed
- synonyms
- Arbroath Oslin, Arbroath Pippin, Arbroth Pippin, Bur- Knot, Burr Knot, Burrknot, Golden Apple, Mother, Mother Apple, Orgeline, Orgiline, Orglon, Original Apple, Original Pippin, Orjeline, Oslin Apple, Oslin Pippin, Scotch Oslin, Summer Oslin, The Oslin Apple, White Oslin
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 63 mm
- russet type
- many dots
- flesh colour
- yellowish
- fruit height
- 51 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.