Applevariety
Sussex Mother
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Sussex, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- softtender
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slight reddish orange flushBackground colour pale yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, truncate-conic t:o conic
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 60-75 mmFruit height 56-69 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern thin russet patches, scaly russet at base
Origin & family
Where Sussex Mother began
Recorded origin
Sussex, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, truncate-conic t:o conic
- fruit width
- 60-75 mm
- over colour
- slight reddish orange flush
- russet type
- thin russet patches, scaly russet at base
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 56-69 mm
- flesh texture
- soft, tender
- ground colour
- pale yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.