Applevariety
Stirling Castle
Also known as King Noble +3
King Noble · Schloss Stirling · Sterling Castle · Zamok Sterlinga
A cooking apple with white flesh and yellow skin, flat in shape, first recorded in 1831; tart, juicy, crisp and soft. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Causeyhead, Scotland
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Yellow
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 89.00 mmHeight 70.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Stirling Castle began
Recorded origin
Causeyhead, Scotland
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 89.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 70.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- synonyms
- King Noble, Schloss Stirling, Sterling Castle, Zamok Sterlinga
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.