Applevariety
Polly Prosser
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape, raised in 1946; sweet, mildly tart, firm and rich. Picked in early October.
Origin · Maidstone, Kent
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 75.50 mmHeight 62.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Polly Prosser began
Recorded origin
Maidstone, Kent
Polly Prosser’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Polly Prosser
Maidstone, Kent
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 75.50 mm
- height
- 62.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Duke of Devonshire
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.