Applevariety

Reverend W. Wilks

Also known as Reverend Wilks

Reverend Wilks

A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, first recorded in 1904; mildly tart, juicy and crisp. Picked in late August.

Origin · Chelsea, England

Taste & texture

Acidity
subacid
Bite
crisp
Juiciness
juicy
Used for
Culinary apple

How to spot it

Skin
Background colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage lowSurface colour pattern striped
Flesh
White
Shape
Truncate conical
Size
largeWidth 88.00 mmHeight 76.00 mm
Appearance
Surface ridges weak

Origin & family

Where Reverend W. Wilks began

Recorded origin

Chelsea, England

United Kingdom

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Field notes

Original source notes
Fruit & tree
size
large
type
Culinary
shape
Truncate conical
width
88.00 mm
height
76.00 mm
ribbing
weak
synonyms
Reverend Wilks
father to
Robert Blatchford
parentage
Peasgood's Nonsuch x Ribston Pippin
flesh colour
White
ground colour
Whitish yellow
over colour amount
low
over colour pattern
striped
Sources 3

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