Applevariety
Paroquet
Also known as Paraquet +1
Paraquet · Parroquet
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, first recorded in 1897; mildly tart. Picked in late September.
Origin · Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Paroquet began
Recorded origin
Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire
Paroquet’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Paroquet
Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire
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
- Truncate conical
- ribbing
- weak
- synonyms
- Paraquet, Parroquet
- parentage
- Peasgood's Nonsuch x Cox's Orange Pippin
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.