Applevariety
Sunburn
A dessert apple with cream flesh and orange skin, conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and soft. Picked in early October.
Origin · Hornchurch, Essex
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour OrangeSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.50 mmHeight 48.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Sunburn began
Recorded origin
Hornchurch, Essex
Sunburn’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Sunburn
Hornchurch, Essex
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → SunburnParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Conical
- width
- 60.50 mm
- height
- 48.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Orange
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.