Applevariety
Red Army
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Eynsham, Oxford
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- mediumWidth 54.00 mmHeight 48.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Red Army began
Recorded origin
Eynsham, Oxford
Red Army’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Red Army
Eynsham, Oxford
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 54.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 48.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Chatley's Kernel x Worcester Pearmain
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- 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.