Applevariety
Sunset
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in about 1918 and named in 1933; aromatic, crisp and firm. Picked in late September.
Origin · Ightham, Kent
Taste & texture
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Sunset began
Recorded origin
Ightham, Kent
Sunset’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Sunset
Ightham, Kent
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → SunsetParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- crunch
- crisp
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.