Applevariety
Star of Devon
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape; tart, aromatic and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Broadclyst, Devon
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 64.00 mmHeight 48.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Star of Devon began
Recorded origin
Broadclyst, Devon
Star of Devon’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Star of Devon
Broadclyst, Devon
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 64.00 mm
- height
- 48.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- father to
- Cheddar Cross Plymouth Cross
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.