Applevariety
Thomas Jeffrey
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape; mildly tart and bitter. Picked in late August.
Origin · Edinburgh, Scotland
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- subacid, a little bitter
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour almost completely covered scarlet flush and carmine stripesSkin texture slightly greasyBackground colour whitish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular to very slightly conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 59 mmFruit height 46 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges indistinct ribsRusset pattern russet on base
Origin & family
Where Thomas Jeffrey began
Recorded origin
Edinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, a little bitter
- ribbing
- indistinct ribs
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to very slightly conic, convex
- fruit width
- 59 mm
- over colour
- almost completely covered scarlet flush and carmine stripes
- russet type
- russet on base
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 46 mm
- skin texture
- slightly greasy
- flesh texture
- tender
- ground colour
- whitish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.