Applevariety
Sandlin Duchess
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in about 1880; sweet and mildly tart. Picked in early October.
Origin · Sandlin, Malvern, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 70.00 mmHeight 53.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Sandlin Duchess began
Recorded origin
Sandlin, Malvern, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 70.00 mm
- height
- 53.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.