Applevariety
Sabaros
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed bright pink, carmine stripesBackground colour pale whitish yellow
- Flesh
- very white
- Shape
- flat, conic, convex, sometimes asymmetric
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 67-75 mmFruit height 54-57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet at base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat, conic, convex, sometimes asymmetric
- fruit width
- 67-75 mm
- over colour
- flushed bright pink, carmine stripes
- russet type
- russet at base
- flesh colour
- very white
- fruit height
- 54-57 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp, fine
- ground colour
- pale whitish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.