Applevariety
Statesman Red Sport
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Origin · New Zealand
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed reddish orange, streaked carmineSkin texture slightly greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white, green core
- Shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 62-74 mmFruit height 53-60 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, sometimes on bodyRusset pattern russet at base, scattered dots
Origin & family
Where Statesman Red Sport began
Recorded origin
New Zealand
Statesman Red Sport’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Statesman Red Sport
New Zealand
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Statesman → Statesman Red SportParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, sometimes on body
- parentage
- Sport of Statesman
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 62-74 mm
- over colour
- flushed reddish orange, streaked carmine
- russet type
- russet at base, scattered dots
- flesh colour
- creamy white, green core
- fruit height
- 53-60 mm
- skin texture
- slightly greasy
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.