Applevariety
Sidney Strake
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour striped orange-brown and a little red, brown in groovesSkin texture greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- whitish
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 59-67 mmFruit height 45-58 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at apex, very prominent ribs on body
Origin & family
Sidney Strake’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Sidney Strake
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Tom Putt → Sidney StrakeParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at apex, very prominent ribs on body
- parentage
- Sport of Tom Putt
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 59-67 mm
- over colour
- striped orange-brown and a little red, brown in grooves
- flesh colour
- whitish
- fruit height
- 45-58 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.