Applevariety
Stobo Castle
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, introduced in about 1900; mildly tart and crisp. Picked in late August.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 76.50 mmHeight 57.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 76.50 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 57.50 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- weak
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.