Applevariety
Puffin
Also known as Bear and Tear +5
Bear and Tear · Come Bear and Tear · Puffin Sweet · Sweet Orcombe · Sweet Orcome · Puffin Sweet
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, round in shape; sweet and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Somerset, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- softtender
- Flavour
- mawkish sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange, streaked redSkin texture greasyBackground colour yellow
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 82 mmFruit height 69 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on body
Origin & family
Where Puffin began
Recorded origin
Somerset, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- mawkish sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Bear and Tear, Come Bear and Tear, Puffin Sweet, Sweet Orcombe, Sweet Orcome
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 82 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange, streaked red
- fruit height
- 69 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- soft, tender
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.