Applevariety
Symond's Winter
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour blotched and striped orange-redSkin texture smoothBackground colour yellow-green
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- variable, flat to intermediate, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57-66 mmFruit height 49-58 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye, ribbed on bodyRusset pattern rough russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye, ribbed on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- variable, flat to intermediate, convex
- fruit width
- 57-66 mm
- over colour
- blotched and striped orange-red
- russet type
- rough russet dots
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 49-58 mm
- skin texture
- smooth
- flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- ground colour
- yellow-green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.