Applevariety
Pomeroy of Somerset
Also known as Jenny Oubury +6
Jenny Oubury · Old Pomeroy · Pome-roy · Pomeroy · Sweet Pomeroy · Taunton · The Old Pomeroy
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, oval in shape; sweet, crisp, firm and rich. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · UK
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet, rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange, striped redBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- tall, conic
- Size
- mediumFruit width 69 mmFruit height 69 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbedRusset pattern russet patches and dots
Origin & family
Where Pomeroy of Somerset began
Recorded origin
UK
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, rich
- ribbing
- ribbed
- synonyms
- Jenny Oubury, Old Pomeroy, Pome-roy, Pomeroy, Sweet Pomeroy, Taunton, The Old Pomeroy
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, conic
- fruit width
- 69 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange, striped red
- russet type
- russet patches and dots
- flesh colour
- yellow
- fruit height
- 69 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.