Applevariety
Severn Bank
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; tart. Picked in late August.
Origin · UK
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed crimsonSkin texture smooth, thickBackground colour deep yellow
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 76 mmFruit height 64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges obtusely ribbed at eye and on body
Origin & family
Where Severn Bank began
Recorded origin
UK
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- obtusely ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 76 mm
- over colour
- flushed crimson
- fruit height
- 64 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, thick
- flesh texture
- tender
- ground colour
- deep yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.