Applevariety
Red Statesman
Also known as Warrior
Warrior
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, tart, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · New Zealand
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid to acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour up to three-quarters flushed and streaked deep bright redSkin texture waxyBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- pale creamy white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 67 mmFruit height 57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at apexRusset pattern russet in cavity, russet dots
Origin & family
Where Red Statesman began
Recorded origin
New Zealand
Red Statesman’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Red Statesman
New Zealand
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Statesman → Red StatesmanParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid to acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at apex
- synonyms
- Warrior
- parentage
- Sport of Statesman
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 67 mm
- over colour
- up to three-quarters flushed and streaked deep bright red
- russet type
- russet in cavity, russet dots
- flesh colour
- pale creamy white
- fruit height
- 57 mm
- skin texture
- waxy
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.