Applevariety
Szaszpap alma
Also known as Csokros Lanijeralma +8
Csokros Lanijeralma · Csokros tanyeralma · Papalma · Pfarrerapfel · Pomme Cure · Pop-alma · Popesc · Sachsischer · Schwedischer Carl-Apfel
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in late October.
Origin · Hungary
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed orange-red, carmine streaksBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 53-58 mmFruit height 39-43 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, sometimes slightly on bodyRusset pattern a few russet dots and flecks, russet at base
Origin & family
Where Szaszpap alma began
Recorded origin
Hungary
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, sometimes slightly on body
- synonyms
- Csokros Lanijeralma, Csokros tanyeralma, Papalma, Pfarrerapfel, Pomme Cure, Pop-alma, Popesc, Sachsischer, Schwedischer Carl-Apfel
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 53-58 mm
- over colour
- flushed orange-red, carmine streaks
- russet type
- a few russet dots and flecks, russet at base
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 39-43 mm
- flesh texture
- crisp, fine
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.