Applevariety
Sanspareil
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, aromatic and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour bright scarlet flush and streaksBackground colour orange yellow
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 72 mmFruit height 57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed base to apex
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, aromatic
- ribbing
- ribbed base to apex
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 72 mm
- over colour
- bright scarlet flush and streaks
- flesh colour
- yellow
- fruit height
- 57 mm
- flesh texture
- crisp
- ground colour
- orange yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.