Applevariety
Sleeping Beauty
Also known as Sleeper +1
Sleeper · Winter Sleeping Beauty
A cooking apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Lincolnshire
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellow
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Sleeping Beauty began
Recorded origin
Lincolnshire
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- crunch
- crisp
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- synonyms
- Sleeper, Winter Sleeping Beauty
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.