Applevariety
Red Musk
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-green skin, round-conical in shape; tart and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Limpsfield, Surrey, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped pinkish orangeSkin texture very greasyBackground colour pale yellow dotted green
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex to sometimes straight
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 61-71 mmFruit height 57-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges much ribbed at eye and on body
Origin & family
Where Red Musk began
Recorded origin
Limpsfield, Surrey, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- much ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex to sometimes straight
- fruit width
- 61-71 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped pinkish orange
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 57-64 mm
- skin texture
- very greasy
- flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- ground colour
- pale yellow dotted green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.