Applevariety
Swaar
Also known as Der Schwere Apfel +8
Der Schwere Apfel · Hardwich · Hardwick · Schwere Apfel · Schwerer Apfel · Suaar · Swaar Appel · Swaar Apple · Zwaar
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-green skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, aromatic and firm. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour PurpleBackground colour Whitish greenSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- mediumWidth 64.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
- Appearance
- high-very highSurface ridges strong
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 64.00 mm
- height
- 51.00 mm
- russet
- high-very high
- ribbing
- strong
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Der Schwere Apfel, Hardwich, Hardwick, Schwere Apfel, Schwerer Apfel, Suaar, Swaar Appel, Swaar Apple, Zwaar
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Purple
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish green
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.