Applevariety
Signe Tillisch
Also known as Signe Tillish +1
Signe Tillish · Sini Tillis
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape, raised in about 1866; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and soft. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness StrongSurface colour PinkBackground colour Whitish YellowSurface colour coverage low
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- largeWidth 84.00 mmHeight 75.00 mm
Origin & family
Signe Tillisch’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Signe Tillisch
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 84.00 mm
- height
- 75.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Signe Tillish, Sini Tillis
- father to
- Astillisch
- parentage
- Calville Blanc d'Hiver x Unknown
- greasiness
- Strong
- over colour
- Pink
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish Yellow
- over colour amount
- low
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.