Applevariety
Runse
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour red patches and stripesSkin texture slightly greasyBackground colour yellow green
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 60-73 mmFruit height 51-63 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very prominent ribs at apex and on bodyRusset pattern occasional russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- very prominent ribs at apex and on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 60-73 mm
- over colour
- red patches and stripes
- russet type
- occasional russet
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 51-63 mm
- skin texture
- slightly greasy
- flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- ground colour
- yellow green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.