Applevariety
Queen Alexandra
A cooking apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape; mildly tart and crisp. Picked in early October.
Origin · England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- largeWidth 74.00 mmHeight 63.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Queen Alexandra began
Recorded origin
England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 74.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 63.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- 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.