Applevariety
Sovari Comun
A cooking apple with greenish flesh and whitish-green skin, round-conical in shape; tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Romania
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour brownish flush, streaked carmineSkin texture slightly roughBackground colour green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 64-73 mmFruit height 58-67 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, slightly on bodyRusset pattern patches of scarf skin and russet
Origin & family
Where Sovari Comun began
Recorded origin
Romania
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 64-73 mm
- over colour
- brownish flush, streaked carmine
- russet type
- patches of scarf skin and russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 58-67 mm
- skin texture
- slightly rough
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.