Applevariety
Plymouth Cross
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1916; tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late August.
Origin · Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Plymouth Cross began
Recorded origin
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Plymouth Cross’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Plymouth Cross
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
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
- Flat
- crunch
- crisp
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Allington Pippin x Star of Devon
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.