Applevariety
Smiler
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Clandon, Surrey
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- medium
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Flavour
- bitter
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Yellow
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 69.00 mmHeight 65.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Smiler began
Recorded origin
Clandon, Surrey
Smiler’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Smiler
Clandon, Surrey
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Smiler → Winter PeachParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 69.00 mm
- crunch
- medium
- height
- 65.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- firm
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.