Applevariety
Port Allen Russet
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; tart. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Port Allen, Errol, Scotland
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Texture
- fine
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed brownish redBackground colour ???yellow - often green or russet hairline???
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate, conic, convex, sometimes straight
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 64-83 mmFruit height 57-69 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed base to apexRusset pattern patches of russet, scaly russet on base
Origin & family
Where Port Allen Russet began
Recorded origin
Port Allen, Errol, Scotland
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly acid
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed base to apex
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex, sometimes straight
- fruit width
- 64-83 mm
- over colour
- flushed brownish red
- russet type
- patches of russet, scaly russet on base
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 57-69 mm
- flesh texture
- fine
- ground colour
- ???yellow - often green or russet hairline???
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.