Applevariety
Tommy Knight
Also known as Tom Knight
Tom Knight
A dessert apple with green-yellow skin, flat,-crunch-crisp in shape; sweet and crisp. Picked in late October.
Origin · St. Angus, Cornwall
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour nearly covered with scarlet streaks and dotsBackground colour yellowish green
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- smallFruit width 47 mmFruit height 38 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet in cavity and on base
Origin & family
Where Tommy Knight began
Recorded origin
St. Angus, Cornwall
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Tom Knight
- fruit size
- small
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 47 mm
- over colour
- nearly covered with scarlet streaks and dots
- russet type
- russet in cavity and on base
- fruit height
- 38 mm
- flesh texture
- hard, crisp
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.