Applevariety
Red Granny Smith
Also known as Batt's Seedling +1
Batt's Seedling · Red Gem
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · Western Australia
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour pinkish brown or pinkish orange flush, deeper stripesSkin texture smooth, rather toughBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, truncate-conic to conic, convex to straight
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 65-75 mmFruit height 59-73 mm
- Appearance
- Russet pattern russet streaks at base, dots
Origin & family
Where Red Granny Smith began
Recorded origin
Western Australia
Australia
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- synonyms
- Batt's Seedling, Red Gem
- parentage
- Granny Smith x Jonathan
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, truncate-conic to conic, convex to straight
- fruit width
- 65-75 mm
- over colour
- pinkish brown or pinkish orange flush, deeper stripes
- russet type
- russet streaks at base, dots
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 59-73 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, rather tough
- flesh texture
- firm, tender
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.