Applevariety
Tellina
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour striped and sometimes flushed orange-redSkin texture very greasyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular, convex
- Size
- small to mediumFruit width 46-55 mmFruit height 45-50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, very prominent ribs on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, very prominent ribs on body
- fruit size
- small to medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 46-55 mm
- over colour
- striped and sometimes flushed orange-red
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 45-50 mm
- skin texture
- very greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.