Applevariety
Racine
A cooking apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Texture
- fairly fine
- Flavour
- sweetish
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pinkBackground colour light yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 70-82 mmFruit height 64-70 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on bodyRusset pattern russet on base, sometimes russet netting, russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweetish
- ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 70-82 mm
- over colour
- flushed pink
- russet type
- russet on base, sometimes russet netting, russet dots
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 64-70 mm
- flesh texture
- fairly fine
- ground colour
- light yellow
- flowering time
- very late
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.