Applevariety
Salome
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape, introduced in 1884; mildly tart and firm. Picked in early October.
Origin · Ottawa, Illinois, USA
Released 1884
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour striped pink to orangeSkin texture greasy, toughBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 55-61 mmFruit height 54-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at apex, prominent ribs on bodyRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Where Salome began
Recorded origin
Ottawa, Illinois, USA
United States
- Released
- 1884
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at apex, prominent ribs on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 55-61 mm
- over colour
- striped pink to orange
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 54-64 mm
- skin texture
- greasy, tough
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.