Applevariety
Thompson's Apple
Also known as Smeller +1
Smeller · The Smeller
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape; sweet, crisp and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Ireland
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour brownish red flush, carmine stripes and stipplingSkin texture rather rough, sticky, thick, toughBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 66-72 mmFruit height 51-55 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet on base, russet markings on body
Origin & family
Where Thompson's Apple began
Recorded origin
Ireland
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Smeller, The Smeller
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 66-72 mm
- over colour
- brownish red flush, carmine stripes and stippling
- russet type
- russet on base, russet markings on body
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 51-55 mm
- skin texture
- rather rough, sticky, thick, tough
- flesh texture
- fine, crisp, firm
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.