Applevariety
Tiffen
A cooking apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · North West of England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour bright pinkish red flush, carmine streaksSkin texture smoothBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 57-68 mmFruit height 47-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern sometimes russet at base
Origin & family
Where Tiffen began
Recorded origin
North West of England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to conic, convex
- fruit width
- 57-68 mm
- over colour
- bright pinkish red flush, carmine streaks
- russet type
- sometimes russet at base
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 47-64 mm
- skin texture
- smooth
- flesh texture
- somewhat soft and coarse
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.