Applevariety
Szacsvay Tafota
Also known as Szacsvari taffota
Szacsvari taffota
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-green skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in late September.
Origin · Transylvania, Hungary
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed yellowBackground colour ???pale green, sometimes a russet hairline???
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- smallFruit width 45-50 mmFruit height 33-39 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed at eye, slightly on bodyRusset pattern russet at base, sometimes mingled with bright pinkish red
Origin & family
Where Szacsvay Tafota began
Recorded origin
Transylvania, Hungary
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- synonyms
- Szacsvari taffota
- fruit size
- small
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 45-50 mm
- over colour
- flushed yellow
- russet type
- russet at base, sometimes mingled with bright pinkish red
- fruit height
- 33-39 mm
- flesh texture
- crisp, somewhat coarse
- ground colour
- ???pale green, sometimes a russet hairline???
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.