Applevariety
Telstar
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1934 and named in 1965; sweet, tart, firm and rich. Picked in early October.
Origin · Greytown, Wairarapa, New Zealand
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 68.00 mmHeight 59.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Telstar began
Recorded origin
Greytown, Wairarapa
New Zealand
Telstar’s family
7 varieties · 6 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Telstar
Greytown, Wairarapa, New Zealand
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 68.00 mm
- height
- 59.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Golden Delicious x Kidd's Orange Red
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.