Applevariety
Ruby (Thorrington)
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Hornchurch, Essex
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- mediumWidth 69.00 mmHeight 57.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Ruby (Thorrington) began
Recorded origin
Hornchurch, Essex
Ruby (Thorrington)’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Ruby (Thorrington)
Hornchurch, Essex
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → Ruby (Thorrington)Parent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 69.00 mm
- height
- 57.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- 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.