Applevariety
Saint Cecilia
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape, introduced in 1918; aromatic, juicy, crisp and soft. Picked in early October.
Origin · Bassaleg, Monmouthshire, Wales
Released 1918
Taste & texture
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 73.00 mmHeight 60.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Saint Cecilia began
Recorded origin
Bassaleg, Monmouthshire, Wales
United Kingdom
- Released
- 1918
Saint Cecilia’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Saint Cecilia
Bassaleg, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → Saint CeciliaParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 73.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 60.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- 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.