Scarlet Nonpareil
Also known as Ecarlate sans pareille +13
Ecarlate sans pareille · New Scarlet Nompareil · New Scarlet Nonpareil · New Scarlet Nonpariel · New-Scarlet Nonpareil · Non Pareille Ecarlate · Non-Pareille Ecarlate · Nonpareil Ecarlate · Nonpareil Scarlet · Saint Augustine's Orange · Scharlachroter Nonpareil · Scharlachrothe Nonpareil · Scharlachrother Nonpareil · Sheppard's Nonpareil
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in about 1773; mildly tart and rich. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Esher, Surrey
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.50 mmHeight 42.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Scarlet Nonpareil began
Recorded origin
Esher, Surrey
Scarlet Nonpareil’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
Scarlet Nonpareil
Esher, Surrey
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Scarlet Nonpareil → Oxford BeautyParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 57.50 mm
- height
- 42.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- absent
- synonyms
- Ecarlate sans pareille, New Scarlet Nompareil, New Scarlet Nonpareil, New Scarlet Nonpariel, New-Scarlet Nonpareil, Non Pareille Ecarlate, Non-Pareille Ecarlate, Nonpareil Ecarlate, Nonpareil Scarlet, Saint Augustine's Orange, Scharlachroter Nonpareil, Scharlachrothe Nonpareil, Scharlachrother Nonpareil, Sheppard's Nonpareil
- father to
- Oxford Beauty
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.