Applevariety
Schurapfel
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped pale orangeSkin texture very greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 73-90 mmFruit height 59-77 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet at base, russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 73-90 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped pale orange
- russet type
- russet at base, russet dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 59-77 mm
- skin texture
- very greasy
- flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.