Applevariety
Small's Admirable
Also known as Admirable +7
Admirable · Admirable de Small · Admirable Small's · Lamb's Favorite · Lamb's Favourite · Silver Pippin · Small Admirable · Small's Imperial
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in about 1850; mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Colnbrook, Slough, Berkshire, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin texture greasyBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- nearly white
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 64 mmFruit height 57 mm
- Appearance
- Russet pattern large russet dots
Origin & family
Where Small's Admirable began
Recorded origin
Colnbrook, Slough, Berkshire, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- synonyms
- Admirable, Admirable de Small, Admirable Small's, Lamb's Favorite, Lamb's Favourite, Silver Pippin, Small Admirable, Small's Imperial
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 64 mm
- russet type
- large russet dots
- flesh colour
- nearly white
- fruit height
- 57 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.