Applevariety
Queen Caroline
Also known as Brown's Caroline +5
Brown's Caroline · Brown's Codlin · Brown's Queen Caroline · Brown's Seedling · Spencer's Favourite · Spencer's Seedling
A cooking apple with white flesh and yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in about 1820; tart and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Measham, near Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Leicestershire, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Yellow
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 76.00 mmHeight 60.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Queen Caroline began
Recorded origin
Measham, near Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Leicestershire, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 76.00 mm
- height
- 60.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Brown's Caroline, Brown's Codlin, Brown's Queen Caroline, Brown's Seedling, Spencer's Favourite, Spencer's Seedling
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.