Applevariety
Shinko
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape, raised in 1931; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in late September.
Origin · Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Shinko began
Recorded origin
Aomori Apple Experiment Station
Japan
Shinko’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Shinko
Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 57.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 51.00 mm
- parentage
- Ralls Janet x Jonathan
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.