Applevariety
Rank Thorn
Also known as Rankthorne
Rankthorne
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; soft. Picked in late September.
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour BrownBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- largeWidth 79.00 mmHeight 66.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strong
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 79.00 mm
- height
- 66.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- strong
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Rankthorne
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.