Applevariety
Shinsei
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1930 and named in 1948; mildly tart, aromatic and crisp. Picked in late September.
Origin · Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour PinkBackground colour Whitish yellow
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Shinsei began
Recorded origin
Aomori Apple Experiment Station
Japan
Shinsei’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Shinsei
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
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 57.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 51.00 mm
- parentage
- Golden Delicious x Early McIntosh
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.