Applevariety
Queenby's Glory
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet and firm. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour extensively flushed orange-red, streaked carmineSkin texture smooth, a little stickyBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex, irregular, asymmetric
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 64-72 mmFruit height 51-57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges broad ribs base to apexRusset pattern extensive russet base and cavity, large conspicuous russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet
- ribbing
- broad ribs base to apex
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex, irregular, asymmetric
- fruit width
- 64-72 mm
- over colour
- extensively flushed orange-red, streaked carmine
- russet type
- extensive russet base and cavity, large conspicuous russet dots
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 51-57 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, a little sticky
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.