Applevariety
Queen
Also known as Die Konigin +10
Die Konigin · Drottningen · Engelskt Drottningapple · Konigin · Koniginapfel · Koroleva · Kralovnino · La Reine · Saltmarsh's Queen · The Claimant · The Queen
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape, introduced in 1880; tart, mildly tart, juicy and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Billericay, Essex, England
Released 1880
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed red, streaked darker redSkin texture greasyBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 88 mmFruit height 63 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body and at eyeRusset pattern scaly russet in cavity
Origin & family
Where Queen began
Recorded origin
Billericay, Essex, England
United Kingdom
- Released
- 1880
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- synonyms
- Die Konigin, Drottningen, Engelskt Drottningapple, Konigin, Koniginapfel, Koroleva, Kralovnino, La Reine, Saltmarsh's Queen, The Claimant, The Queen
- mother to
- Bushey Grove
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 88 mm
- over colour
- flushed red, streaked darker red
- russet type
- scaly russet in cavity
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 63 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- tender
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Queen apple, cross-sectioned. Synonyms: Die Konigin, Drottningen, Engelskt Drottningapple, Konigin, Koniginapfel, Koroleva, Kralovnino, La Reine, Saltmarsh's Queen