Applevariety
Scarlet Crofton
Also known as Crofton +8
Crofton · Crofton Ecarlate · Crofton Pippin · Crofton Red · Crofton Scarlet · Longford Pearmain · Red Crofton · Saul Apple · Winter Crofton
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed scarlet with darker stripesSkin texture roughBackground colour golden yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 55-64 mmFruit height 40-53 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body and at eyeRusset pattern russet at base and some on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- synonyms
- Crofton, Crofton Ecarlate, Crofton Pippin, Crofton Red, Crofton Scarlet, Longford Pearmain, Red Crofton, Saul Apple, Winter Crofton
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 55-64 mm
- over colour
- flushed scarlet with darker stripes
- russet type
- russet at base and some on body
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 40-53 mm
- skin texture
- rough
- flesh texture
- firm, somewhat coarse
- ground colour
- golden yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.