Applevariety
Prince Edward
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, introduced in 1897; mildly tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Sawbridgeworth, England
Released 1897
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 64.50 mmHeight 55.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Prince Edward began
Recorded origin
Sawbridgeworth, England
United Kingdom
- Released
- 1897
Prince Edward’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Prince Edward
Sawbridgeworth, England, United Kingdom
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
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 64.50 mm
- height
- 55.50 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Cox's Pomona x Cellini
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.