Applevariety
Saint Ailred
A dessert apple with whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1942; aromatic, crisp and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, Coalville, Leicestershire
Taste & texture
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 64.00 mmHeight 57.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Saint Ailred began
Recorded origin
Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, Coalville, Leicestershire
Saint Ailred’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Saint Ailred
Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, Coalville, Leicestershire
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 64.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 57.00 mm
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- James Grieve x Ellison's Orange
- over colour
- Orange
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.