Applevariety
Spaanse Keiing
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape; tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · East Flanders, Belgium
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour light and dark red stripesSkin texture greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- whitish
- Shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57-66 mmFruit height 53-63 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at apex, very prominent ribs on bodyRusset pattern russet at base, green and grey dots
Origin & family
Where Spaanse Keiing began
Recorded origin
East Flanders
Belgium
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at apex, very prominent ribs on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 57-66 mm
- over colour
- light and dark red stripes
- russet type
- russet at base, green and grey dots
- flesh colour
- whitish
- fruit height
- 53-63 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, rather coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.