Applevariety
Sandew
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, round in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in mid-September.
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Origin · Somerset, England
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Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed goldSkin texture smoothBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed base to apexRusset pattern russet dots, russet on base
Origin & family
Where Sandew began
Recorded origin
Somerset, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed base to apex
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- over colour
- flushed gold
- russet type
- russet dots, russet on base
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- skin texture
- smooth
- flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- ground colour
- yellowish green