Applevariety
Tom Putt
Also known as Coalbrook +12
Coalbrook · Devonshire Nine Square · Izod's Kernel · January Tom Putt · Jeffrey's Seedling · Jeffreys' Seedling · Marrow Bone · Marrow-Bone · Ploughman · Thomas Jeffreys · Thos. Jeffreys · Tom Potter · Tom Put
A cooking / cider apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · Trent, Somerset
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- acid, slightly bitter
- Used for
- Culinary / Cider apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed dull orange-red, carmine blotches and stripes radiating from baseSkin texture smooth, very greasyBackground colour pale greenish yellow, sometimes wavy hairline round eye,
- Flesh
- greenish or yellowish white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 57-80 mmFruit height 39-69 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs base to apex, angular
Origin & family
Where Tom Putt began
Recorded origin
Trent, Somerset
Tom Putt’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Tom Putt
Trent, Somerset
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Tom Putt → Sidney StrakeParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- sports
- Sidney Strake
- flavour
- acid, slightly bitter
- ribbing
- prominent ribs base to apex, angular
- synonyms
- Coalbrook, Devonshire Nine Square, Izod's Kernel, January Tom Putt, Jeffrey's Seedling, Jeffreys' Seedling, Marrow Bone, Marrow-Bone, Ploughman, Thomas Jeffreys, Thos. Jeffreys, Tom Potter, Tom Put
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 57-80 mm
- over colour
- flushed dull orange-red, carmine blotches and stripes radiating from base
- flesh colour
- greenish or yellowish white
- fruit height
- 39-69 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, very greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, compact, tender, a little coarse and mealy
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow, sometimes wavy hairline round eye,
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.