Applevariety
Rival
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, first recorded in 1900; tart, juicy and firm. Picked in late September.
Origin · Newbury, Berkshire, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 76.00 mmHeight 63.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Rival began
Recorded origin
Newbury, Berkshire, England
United Kingdom
Rival’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Rival
Newbury, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 76.00 mm
- height
- 63.00 mm
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Peasgood's Nonsuch x Cox's Orange Pippin
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.