Applevariety
Spiza
A cooking and dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, introduced in 1916; mildly tart and crisp. Picked in early October.
Released 1916
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed reddish orange and faint stripesBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- tall, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 79-88 mmFruit height 73-81 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet dots, russet at base
Origin & family
Where Spiza began
- Released
- 1916
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- parentage
- Northern Spy x Unknown
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- tall, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 79-88 mm
- over colour
- flushed reddish orange and faint stripes
- russet type
- russet dots, russet at base
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 73-81 mm
- flesh texture
- crisp, coarse
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.