Applevariety
Simonffy Piros
Also known as Simonffy Roth
Simonffy Roth
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Hungary
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- very sweet, subacid, perfumed, strawberrylike
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost entirely covered red with purplish red stripes and patchesSkin texture perfumedBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- white to greenish white, sometimes red under skin
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, sometimes truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- smallFruit width 44-50 mmFruit height 39-43 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at apex and occasionally on bodyRusset pattern sometimes a little russet at base
Origin & family
Where Simonffy Piros began
Recorded origin
Hungary
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- very sweet, subacid, perfumed, strawberrylike
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at apex and occasionally on body
- synonyms
- Simonffy Roth
- fruit size
- small
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, sometimes truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 44-50 mm
- over colour
- almost entirely covered red with purplish red stripes and patches
- russet type
- sometimes a little russet at base
- flesh colour
- white to greenish white, sometimes red under skin
- fruit height
- 39-43 mm
- skin texture
- perfumed
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.