Applevariety
Richardson (Ireland)
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, flat-round in shape; tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late September.
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Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour pink flush and streaksSkin texture greasyBackground colour pale yellow tinged gold
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic or rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 61-70 mmFruit height 56-57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, sometimes on bodyRusset pattern russet at base, russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, sometimes on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic or rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 61-70 mm
- over colour
- pink flush and streaks
- russet type
- russet at base, russet dots
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 56-57 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp, fine
- ground colour
- pale yellow tinged gold