Roxbury Russet
Also known as Belper Russet +39
Belper Russet · Belpre Russet · Boston or Roxbury · Boston or Roxbury Russet · Boston Russet · English Russet · Hewe's Russet · Howe's Russet · Jusset · Manetta Russet · Mariett's Ruseet · Marietta Russet · Pitman's Russet · Pomme Russet · Putman · Putman Russet · Putman' Russet · Putman's Russet · Putnam Russet · Putnam Russet of Ohio · Reinette Rousse de Boston · Reinette von Roxbury · Renet Bostonskii · Rox · Rox Russet · Roxburg Russet · Roxbury · Roxbury Russeting · Ruginetta di Boston · Russet · Russete · Russeting · Schippen's Russet · Shippen's · Shippen's Russet · Shippeus Russet · Shippin's Russet · Sylvan Russet · Warner Russet · Warner's Russet
A dessert apple with white flesh and green skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Roxbury, Massachusetts
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes tinged bronzeSkin texture roughBackground colour green
- Flesh
- yellowish or greenish white
- Shape
- variable, flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex, cross section may be elliptical
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbedRusset pattern almost entirely covered with greenish to yellowish brown russet
Origin & family
Where Roxbury Russet began
Recorded origin
Roxbury, Massachusetts
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed
- synonyms
- Belper Russet, Belpre Russet, Boston or Roxbury, Boston or Roxbury Russet, Boston Russet, English Russet, Hewe's Russet, Howe's Russet, Jusset, Manetta Russet, Mariett's Ruseet, Marietta Russet, Pitman's Russet, Pomme Russet, Putman, Putman Russet, Putman' Russet, Putman's Russet, Putnam Russet, Putnam Russet of Ohio, Reinette Rousse de Boston, Reinette von Roxbury, Renet Bostonskii, Rox, Rox Russet, Roxburg Russet, Roxbury, Roxbury Russeting, Ruginetta di Boston, Russet, Russete, Russeting, Schippen's Russet, Shippen's, Shippen's Russet, Shippeus Russet, Shippin's Russet, Sylvan Russet, Warner Russet, Warner's Russet
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- variable, flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex, cross section may be elliptical
- over colour
- sometimes tinged bronze
- russet type
- almost entirely covered with greenish to yellowish brown russet
- flesh colour
- yellowish or greenish white
- skin texture
- rough
- flesh texture
- firm, somewhat coarse, fairly tender
- ground colour
- green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.