Applevariety
Sheep's Nose (3)
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart and dry. Picked in mid-September.
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Origin · UK
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Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- hard, dry
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour scarlet dots and stripesSkin texture uneven surfaceBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- tall, rectangular to conic, concave
- Size
- mediumFruit width 67 mmFruit height 64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed base to apex, extra ribs at apex
Origin & family
Where Sheep's Nose (3) began
Recorded origin
UK
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed base to apex, extra ribs at apex
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular to conic, concave
- fruit width
- 67 mm
- over colour
- scarlet dots and stripes
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 64 mm
- skin texture
- uneven surface
- flesh texture
- hard, dry
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow